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If MobLogic Is Journalism, Does That Make Lindsay Campbell a Journalist? (CNET)
Josh Wolf: Lindsay Campbell is not a journalist, or at least she claims she isn't. The former host of Wall Strip and the current host and producer for MobLogic (a new Web series produced by CBS Interactive) wasted no time before disclosing this perspective to her audience. But what she does is journalism, and while it may not rise to investigative muckraking, I doubt many people would argue otherwise.

Onion Writer on the Satirical News Cycle (Gelf)
For someone whose job is to write satire, separating reality from absurdity can seem unnatural. This is something that becomes apparent when talking to Todd Hanson, story editor and longtime writer for The Onion and co-author of Our Dumb World: The Onion's Atlas of the Planet Earth, 73rd Edition. Gelf spoke with Hanson about the creative process at The Onion.

Looking Forward to Remind Viewers What They Missed (NYT)
"It's time to dream again," according to an emotional advertisement on ABC. "It's time to feel again. It's time to come together again." It also seems to be time to promote the long-awaited return of scripted shows to television, deftly omitting any mention of the three-month writers' strike that crippled most production and took viewers' favorite shows off the air.

The Naughty Broadcasting Company (WaPo)
Lisa de Moraes: While the country waits with bated breath for the Supreme Court to weigh in on whether the FCC can penalize broadcast networks for fleeting uses of "naughty" words, those innovators at NBC 2.0 have come up with what appears to be the practically perfect FCC-fine-proof sitcom episode, in which the bad word most favored by Hollywood celebrities is referenced repeatedly.

ESPN Turns Off Ad Nets to Protect Brand, Content (Mediaweek)
Even as more prominent sites experiment with selling remnant inventory through online ad networks, and in some cases ad exchanges, ESPN.com is saying thanks, but no thanks. The site recently cut ties with Specific Media and several other unnamed ad networks, and is taking the bold stand that ad selling that relies heavily on arbitrage and algorithms is not for them.

Politics Is a 'Drug' to ABC's Tapper (B&C)
Jake Tapper, 39, was a toddler during Watergate, but he obviously gleaned something from his second-hand exposure to the scandal that brought down a presidency and defined an era. "Politics is really a drug to Jake," says Jon Banner, the executive producer of ABC's World News, where so many of Tapper's reports appear. "There is nobody more obsessed."

CBS Likes Price Is Right in Primetime (NYT/TV Decoder)
CBS, which started showing The Price Is Right on Friday nights last month, has ordered four more after-dark episodes of the venerable daytime game show. The special editions, called "Million Dollar Spectaculars," will be shown Wednesdays at 8 p.m. beginning April 30.

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