An e-mailer responded to yesterday's McEnroe audience story: "Just seen in Times Square, NY, today: Several young folks working various blocks trying in vain to give anyone, anyone, free tickets to the Wednesday night McEnroe show on CNBC. Words heard: 'Free tickets.' 'See celebrities.' 'Free lunch.' 'Free Gift.' It reminded me of the pathetic days I spent at an outlet called 'NewsTalk Television' in NYC, where we also had to virtually grab people off the street for the audience shows. Fortunately, we only had to give them donuts and coffee to come in. It got so bad that there were regular audience members that were even given nicknames by the staff when seen on camera. By the way, NewsTalk Television went dark. Looks like Deja Vu all over again."

With officials warning of the dangers to U.S. forces in Fallujah, several e-mailers have wondered if it's appropriate for journalists to be embedded there.

"Our paramount concern is the safety of our colleagues in Iraq," a network news executive tells TVNewser. "Fifty-seven news media staffers have been killed there in the past 19 months. Responsible news organizations -- I pointedly stress this does not include all news organizations -- are doing all they should to train, equip, and protect their staffers in Iraq." (Most of the media outlets he referred to are non-U.S. TV networks and print news organizations.)

"We must be there to report on a huge story," the executive continued. "Fallujah is a big part of the story -- thousands of Americans are involved in combat there -- and we must do all we can within reason to provide reporting from the scene."

MSNBC's Keith Olbermann devoted 15 minutes of last night's Countdown to "electronic voting angst," and viewers responded: Since 8pm last night, the show's staff have received over 4,600 e-mails about the issue.

Olbermann has been blogging the story on MSNBC.com. He has discussed the "more votes than voters" situation in Ohio, along with Democratic counties in Florida that somehow heavily favored Bush. All the information was confirmed and "moved...right out of the Reynolds Wrap Hat zone in about ten minutes," KO writes.

Olbermann also offers theories as to why the stories aren't getting more attention: "The concession took the wind out of a lot of journalists' aggressiveness towards the entire issue," and blogs have been pushing the story, to the chagrin of some journos.

As for the e-mails, there have been roughly 200 negative responses, and 4,400 individual, non-form-letter, positives, Olbermann said in an e-mail around noon today. That's a 22:1 ratio. He'll cover the story again tonight...

NBC's headlines on its Nightly News ratings victory press release today: "Americans clearly vote 'NBC Nightly News' as the no. 1 network evening newscast by huge numbers," AND "NBC dominates ABC by 19% and CBS by 47% in total viewers and tops ABC by 26% and CBS by 55% in the key demographic adults 25-54." Here are the #'s...

An e-mailer asks: Is '60 Minutes Wednesday' "reworking itself as an entertainment-based show? Everytime I go to cbsnews.com there is an ad banner for various celebrities coming up on 60M Wed. And if you check out this page, on the right sidebar there's a commercial for some of the 'faces you'll see' this fall (all are entertainment-based.) This follows soft profiles on Jon Stewart and 'Saturday Night Live' on 60M Sunday."

> Today's NY Daily News: 60 Min EP "Josh Howard said Gordon's role is not a sign that the show will pander to the celebrity obsession common in newsmagazines. '60 Minutes has always presented a mix of news and celebrities,' said Howard."

LA Times writer Patrick Goldstein spoofs Super Size Me and tries a Fair & Balanced diet for one week. That's right: All FNC, all the time. A sample passage:

"8:48am: The Fox News headline reads: 'Trust is a major focus of this election.' 9:10am: Rudy Giuliani is on saying the real focus of the election is 'trust.' 10:03am: Mike Emanuel reports: 'The president says this election is all about who you trust.' Anyone want to guess what the Fox theme of the day is?"

Anyone want to guess what the theme of this column is? You decide...

NBC News unveiled its retooled "Mission" theme song and an updated graphics package on the Nightly News Monday night One e-mailer said the intro seems like a "lighter" version of the theme. We'll try to snag a video clip of the intro on Tuesday.

> Video clips: Teaser and "In-Depth" segment (WMV)

> Update: 8am: "It's actually a return to John Williams' original arrangement of 1985," an insider e-mails in. "Williams first composed the piece in April '85 and then reworked the theme so it would sound better on television. The "Mission" we're all familiar with is intense and driving, and this reworked version is more classical. I think it's a nice change after 20 years. "Today" also used to feature a number of excellent Williams cuts in the 1980s and '90s before switching to the cheesy, canned music now used after the 7:00 open. "Meet the Press" is the only NBC show to still exclusively use Williams' themes."

> Does this promo for MSNBC's Scarborough Country seem odd to anyone else? Specifically -- doesn't it seem Fox-y? "When I looked up, I thought I had accidentally changed the channel," an e-mailer says, "until I saw the MSNBC logo at the end." Joe interviewed Tommy Franks on Monday night...

> MSNBC.com has unveiled a new webcast called Tech Watch. It's a twice-a-week, three-minute-long look at the latest in technology. Lost Remote has details.

> WCCO-TV anchor Randi Kaye is heading to CNN, the affiliate has announced. She will be a news anchor and consumer reporter.

> "Ed Gordon has been named a contributor to CBS News' '60 Minutes Wednesday,'" TVWeek reports. "Mr. Gordon's first story is an interview with actor Jaime Foxx this week."

"The Republicans are way ahead of the Democrats in getting their message out," a Salon.com commenter says. He says Kerry's message was filtered by pundits, and that he was "Gored" by the media. "It's not the message, stupid! We need our own, progressive cable news network to counter Fox News and to keep ABC, CBS, NBC and CNN more honest."