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Just as the shooting rampage in Orlando was coming to an end, with the arrest of the suspect, the cable news channels turned their attention back to Texas. At 2:34pmET there was a worldwide moment of silence to honor the 13 people killed and more than 30 wounded in yesterday's massacre at Ft. Hood. Secretary of Defense Robert Gates declared the moment of silence, planned for 24 hours after the shooting and asked U.S. military forces around the world to take part.

At 12:33pmET, the Twitter feed @BreakingNews, which is attached to the BNONews site, reported on a mass shooting this morning at an Orlando office building.

HLN and CNN reported the news, with choppers/information from all three affiliates, WFTV, WESH and WKMG, at 12:35pm. MSNBC, using NBC affiliate WESH-TV's chopper, broke in at 12:36 and Fox News reported the story at 12:37.

The latest news is that 8 people have been shot and the shooter is not in custody.

• In what may be the cheesiest local news tagline, WESH-TV would like you to know they have BIG COVERAGE OF THE BIG STORY.

• FNC's coverage is hampered by their O&O WOFL which apparently does not have a chopper, and is relying on traffic cameras.

• One of the first reports from Orlando on CNN came from, not a correspondent, or reporter, but one CNN's All Platform Journalists, as they're known.

> Update 2:23pmET: The gunman, Jason Rodriguez, is under arrest. One person has been killed, five others wounded.

> More: Local Orlando news stations caught up with Rodriguez as he was taken into custody. "They left me to rot," he says.

At 8:30amET sharp, the business networks reported something that hasn't happened since 1983 -- the unemployment rate shot past 10%. With 190,000 jobs lost in October, the rate is now 10.2%. For CNBC, Hampton Pearson was outside the Labor Deptarment with the stats. For Fox Business, Peter Barnes broke the news, during Imus in the Morning. Lizzie O'Leary reported the news for BloombergTV.

At MidnightET CNN's Wolf Blitzer is anchoring a live edition of LKL. During the 9pmET hour, Larry King announced he was hosting a 50th birthday dinner for his wife and thanked Blitzer for sitting in.

FNC preempted the O'Reilly re-air at 11pmET continuing with Greta Van Susteren. At MidnightET FNC is re-airing Van Susteren's 10pmET hour.

MSNBC finished live coverage at 10pmET, sticking to the re-airs of Countdown and The Rachel Maddow Show at 10pm and 11pm, respectively, and Countdown again at Midnight.

At a news conference this evening, Lt. Gen. Robert Cone, commander of III Corps at Ft. Hood, Texas announced that Major Nidal Malik Hasan, the solider accused of the shooting spree today on base, is in fact alive and in stable condition.

"I say again," Lt. Gen. Cone repeated, "the shooter is not dead, but in custody and in stable condition."

That revelation has the news organizations wondering how it took several hours for the information to be made public.

Fox News military analyst Lt. Col. Bill Cowan told Sean Hannity, it may have had to do with the investigation. "Maybe it had something to do with them finding out if there were other people still out there," said Cowan. "It doesn't make sense why they didn't let us know early on why he was indeed alive."

CNN's Larry King says his network wants answers. "Lets be clear about this," said King, "this was not a CNN mistake for four hours. We reported what the Colonel said on camera to the world, and then somehow they didn't tell us what they obviously knew for hours. We have a right to know why we definitively reported he was dead. CNN is pressing the military to explain why they waited until after 9pm eastern, that he was alive and in stable condition."

In the 3pmET hour, the cable networks all covered breaking news of a shooting at Fort Hood in Texas near a soldier readiness processing center. (AP story)

Early reports had casualties at 7 dead and 20 injured.

One suspect was in custody and two others were at large.

> Update: As of an Army news conference at 4:50pmET, reports are now 12 dead and 31 injured. One gunman was killed and two suspects are in custody, all are U.S. soldiers. The shooting took place around 2:30pmET.

> Update: MSNBC's David Shuster reported the news at 3:13pmET with assistance from KCEN, the NBC affiliate in Waco/Killeen/Temple, Texas. Shepard Smith reported it on FNC at 3:16pmET. CNN's Rick Sanchez reported at 3:18pmET as the network came out of a commercial break. HLN's Chuck Roberts reported the story at 3:26pmET.

> Update: At 3:30pmET, Charlie Gibson delivered a special report for ABC News. Katie Couric delivered a report for CBS News at 4:00pmET.

> Update: At 4:49pmET Brian Williams began anchoring what would be a 20-minute special report for NBC stations which included remarks from Pres. Obama. CBS' Couric and ABC's Gibson also anchored special coverage of Obama's remarks.

> Program Note: At 5pmET on Fox News, Shepard Smith began anchoring in place of Glenn Beck's program (Beck is off recovering from surgery.)

> More: At 5:01pmET Pres. Obama, speaking to a summit of American Indian tribes, called the incident "a horrific outburst of violence," adding, "My immediate thoughts and prayers are with the wounded and with the families of the fallen."

> Program Note: We're told Couric is doing a Skype interview with an Army spouse at Ft. Hood who works with PTSD soldiers. The interview will air on "Evening News."

> Update: At 5:09pmET ABC's Brian Ross identified the suspect as Army Major Malik Nadal Hasan, who is 39 or 40 years old. NBC's Pete Williams reported the name at 5:27pm. CNN's Wolf Blitzer reported the name at 5:35pm, making the point that the suspect is an Army Major. His guest at the time, Lt. Gen. Russel Honore said, "My jaw just dropped when you mentioned that."

> Program Note: ABC's Chris Cuomo is en route to Texas for "Good Morning America."

Who knew? Actor Jon Voight, father of Angelina Jolie, was on Capitol Hill today speaking out against healthcare reform. MSNBC covered his remarks live.

MSNBC's Keith Olbermann blogged at MLB.com about his night at Yankee Stadium watching the NY Yankees win their 27th World Series Championship and posted a few photos from the game. This one is our favorite:

Olbermann wrote, "A reminder that baseball does erase boundaries. The guy I'm taking a photo of, who's taking a photo of me - we get along perfectly at the ballpark - less so during our day jobs."

Two more photos after the jump. (h/t Mediaite)

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Finding itself in the news this week, the presses roll on for Time Inc. magazines including the flagship TIME.

In this week's edition, out tomorrow, media critic James Poniewozik writes about "the most significant bias out there: moderate bias."

Sean Hannity's Republicanism, [Glenn] Beck's populism and Mike Huckabee's Christian conservatism are very different - as are, say, Rachel Maddow's progressivism and Chris Matthews' Democratic insiderdom. All of this promises wild and interesting times for journalists to cover, but they won't be able to do it from the neutral center. Because there isn't one, and there never was.

Twitter introduced its "Lists" feature last week, which allows users to create organized groups of the people they follow to share with others. TVNewser has put together five lists of newsers and other frequent tweeters that are worth checking out. Clicking the titles will take you to a page where you can follow the whole group, or if you're feeling all picky-choosy, you can select specific accounts you want to follow.

1. White House Correspondents: These guys are on the front lines of White House reporting and their updates give a pretty interesting perspective from the inside. It's not all serious though. The "Goatee Gamble" played out recently over twitter.

2. Amusing Newsers: It takes a special talent to be consistently amusing in 140 character chunks. These newsers don't disappoint in that department.

3. People You Would Not Expect to Have Robust Twitter Accounts: Larry King has a twitter account. Enough said there.

4. Media Reporters: A group of other TV and media biz reporters with the industry goods that will keep you up-to-date.

5. Weatherpeople: You'd expect that weather anchors would tweet mostly about the weather, but, surprisingly, these weathermen (and weatherwomen) are probably our favorite all-around tweeters.

Bonus: Mediabistro blogs: Okay. This is blatant mediabistro promoting, but frankly, some of our colleagues are pretty great tweeple and their feeds are worth checking out.

There are plenty of other newsers with big followings and accounts worth checking out that didn't fit neatly into one of the above categories. Next week, we're going to publish a list of reader favorite tweeters. Start dropping the names of your favorites in the comments section or, better still, tweet them @tvnewser.