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The Pundit Analyzing Obama? Some TV Upstart Named Rove (NYT)
The bete noire of the Democrats has turned pundit, and his old nemeses do not always know what to make of it. One year ago, when he was still a deputy White House chief of staff in the Bush administration, Karl Rove was more likely than not ducking news organizations. Now, he has joined them, as an analyst for Fox News and a contributor to Newsweek and The Wall Street Journal.

PBS Revives The Electric Company (NYT)
Refitted for the age of hip-hop and informed by decades of further educational research on reading, the 2009 version of The Electric Company is a weekly, more danceable version of its former daily self. The series, which is expected to make its debut in January, faces challenges the original never did as well as familiar ones.

Chuck Todd Keeps the Numbers Flowing in NBC's Election Coverage (WaPo)
For political junkies, Chuck Todd has become all but inescapable. When he isn't shuttling between studios, he is being invoked as an authority by one anchor or another. After a career out of the limelight, the genial 36-year-old is the campaign season's most improbable TV star. The voracious appetite of cable news has given him a huge megaphone and an outsize role in shaping coverage of the White House race.

Upfront Q&A: Zucker on Going First (TV Week)
NBC Universal pPresident-CEO Jeff Zucker talks about why NBCU no longer considers ratings the chief factor in determining whether a show stays on the air and the complexities of the sales process, where he expects to see the continued fast growth NBCU craves, and why flagship station WNBC-TV in New York is going into competition with an established 24-hour cable news channel.

Craig (of the List) Looks Beyond the Web (NYT)
craigslist is digging even deeper into the classified-ad markets. Once, an announcement that craigslist was expanding meant adding cities like Miami, Minneapolis, and Philadelphia. These days, it means smaller places like Janesville, Wis., (population: about 60,000) and Farmington, N.M., (roughly 38,000) as well as Cebu in the Philippines and, by Craig Newmark's request, a site for Ramallah on the West Bank.

Dan Rather, Meet Jamie Lynn Spears and Robot Chicken (AdAge)
Simon Dumenco: This edition of Media Guy's NSFAQ (Not So Frequently Asked Questions) looks at Microsoft's Zune, Jamie Lynn Spears' pregnancy, Dan Rather's "wankerman" days, a new obituaries site, Hillary Clinton, and the possible winner of American Idol.

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