O'Reilly Sex Suits: Silence From Stewart

It's been almost two weeks since the dueling O'Reilly sex suits were hatched, but The Daily Show hasn't made a single joke about it yet. John Higgins says "the silence is deafening" in a Broadcasting & Cable brief tonight. "Is it because Stewart and O'Reilly have become pals after appearing on each other's shows?," he wonders...

Jon Stewart & The "Line Of Respectability"

Steve Croft sat down with Jon Stewart on 60 Minutes tonight. After discussing Edwards' decision to announce his candidacy on the show, Stewart said: "We have a difficult time when we march up to that line of respectability." He added: "I think access doesn't work for us. And by the way, it hasn't been working for the regular media, either." Here's more...

Stewart/Xfire: IFilm's Most-Watched TV Clip Ever

Howie Kurtz screwed up the statistic on Saturday, but Variety gets it right in a new Inside Move column about The Stewart/Xfire video on Ifilm.com. "Stats from IFilm.com show it generated 1.4 million viewings in just six days, making it the most watched TV clip ever and one of the most popular videos of any type on the site," the trade mag reports...

Brokaw Doesn't Forget About The Little Guy

David Bauder profiles Tom Brokaw in an AP on TV story today. He says it's all about the viewers: "We are connected from these large, glittering, bells-and-whistles sets in New York to ordinary households in the Southwest, the Midwest, to barrooms and schools and other places," he says. "They rely on us...You feel at the end of having done it all these years that if people still have faith in what you've done and feel a personal connection, and feel it so strongly that they're willing to come up to you and express that, that's very gratifying." More...
> "By Election Day 2008, certainly one and maybe all three network faces will be different," Bauder notes.

Olbermann Offers $99,000 For O'Reilly Sex Tapes

Keith Olbermann is offering Andrea Mackris $99,000. "If she really wants to fight this, and only needs seed money to keep the legal challenge going, I'm willing to stand up and help her -- and help history," he writes. "I'll pay off her $99,000 in debts." He wants a copy of the tapes, of course. "I've got a check for $99,000 here as a plea from the future," he concludes. "Save the tapes! Save the tapes! Save the tapes!"