Carville and Matalin to Star in Reality TV Show (Time)
Lifetime Television's new reality show Election will star seasoned political strategists — and spouses — James Carville and Mary Matalin, who have signed on to counsel teenage candidates for school president.

Money Changes Everything at NPR (NYT)
National Public Radio doesn't have traditional advertising, and has always relied on the generosity of corporations, foundations and listeners. But in 2003 Joan Kroc arranged to leave NPR a gift of $230 million, and since then nothing at the radio network has been quite the same.

Huffington Learns From Clooney Experience (HuffPo)
Arianna Huffington: I was blinded to an extremely important issue: that a blog, where the source of the material is not clear, diminishes the amazing work of bloggers who day in and day out put their hearts and souls into writing their blogs. NYT: Dozens of Huffington Post readers agitated for an apology.

Everyone in a Stew Over South Park (WaPo)
Comedy Central, the allegedly irreverent, testosterone-fueled, take-no-prisoners basic cable network, looks more like a Vertical Integration Sissy Girl after yanking an episode of South Park that lampoons Scientology and Tom Cruise, writes Lisa de Moraes.

Big Business Barges in on Bloggers (Guardian)
Companies once saw them as a nuisance, but now they are trying to get the bloggers onboard, realizing that they can reach consumers better than any PR company ever could.

Payback Time for Liberal and Conservative Pundits Over Iraq (WaPo)
Howard Kurtz: This is no high-minded debate about military strategy and ancient religious hatreds. It is an old-fashioned smackdown by those who detest George W. Bush against those who once defended him.

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