FishbowlDC’s Patrick Gavin appeared today on “Morning Joe” to talk inauguration and the impending masses coming to D.C. He’ll be avoiding the crowd and watching the event from his couch. Check out the clip below (oh and by the way, Willie, Patrick doesn’t only work for the Examiner — he’s also the editor of FBDC):

• Also “Morning Joe” launched a new Website today. WebNewser has more information.

FishbowlDC’s Patrick Gavin has the entire Sunday show schedule for this weekend.

Some highlights include David Axelrod on NBC and CBS, Robert Gibbs on ABC and Laura Bush on FOX.

Click here for the full schedule.

FishbowlDC’s Patrick Gavin obtained an internal memo from DC bureau chief Bryan Boughton, informing staff that Brit Hume‘s last day anchoring “Special Report” will be tomorrow.

“Anyone who can please join us at 9:30am tomorrow (tues) to spend a few minutes honoring Brit on his last day anchoring. We’ll gather in the newsroom,” says the memo.

Hume announced in July he was stepping down as anchor of the 6pmET program. No replacement has been named. Hume’s new contract with FNC, which begins January 1, calls for a 100-day-a-year work schedule during which he will anchor major news events, appear on Fox News Sunday and turn up on his old show, on occasion.

• Earlier on TVNewser: Brit Hume Reflective As He Approaches His Fox News Exit…

• FishbowlNY’s Glynnis MacNicol reports today’s shocking news — President-elect Barack Obama was selected as Time magazine’s Person of the Year. Noticeably absent from the “people who mattered” section was any media figure.

• FishbowlDC’s Patrick Gavin has the video of a heated exchange between Megyn Kelly and Bill O’Reilly during Monday’s O’Reilly Factor.

• FishbowlLA’s Dan Cox writes about Foxnews.com movie critic Roger Friedman being “banned” from the premiere of Tom Cruise‘s new film, “Valkyrie.”

> Dr. Mehmet Oz was surprised this morning on Good Morning America by a man he helped after a traffic crash in Virginia Beach last week. “I just want to thank you from the bottom of my heart,” said Stanley Tatum to Oz by phone. “You don’t just talk the talk, but you walk the walk.”

> As he mentioned on today’s Media Menu, FishbowlDC’s Patrick Gavin reports on “what some TV types are talking about today“: Gwen Ifill‘s rare appearance on ABC’s This Week yesterday. The regular Meet the Press guest had expressed interest, and was reported to be considered, for the moderator job.

> At the end of today’s Rush & Molloy-refereed brawl between Judith Regan and Michael Wolff, FNC CEO Roger Ailes makes a guest appearance. Wolff says Ailes called “a date” with Regan “the scariest three hours of my life,” Regan responds by saying “we went out to dinner to talk business,” and Ailes concurs: “Judith’s version is correct. It was a business dinner.”

• AgencySpy’s Matt Van Hoven reports on a juicy Page Six story re: CNBC’s Donny Deutsch and a married woman.

• FishbowlDC’s Patrick Gavin has more details on a Chris Matthews decision delay.

• Galleycat’s Jason Boog writes about lagging holiday book sales as reported by Nielsen BookScan (although Bill O’Reilly‘s is still at #7).

Since the news of NBC’s layoffs at the DC bureau last Friday, more big names exiting the bureau are emerging this week.

NBC News reporter and senior investigative producer Jim Popkin (pictured) is taking a buyout, after nearly 14 years with the network. Popkin helped create the NBC News Investigative Unit after 9/11, and the unit has won four national Emmys, among other awards.

FishbowlDC’s Patrick Gavin reports today that DC deputy bureau chief Brady Daniels and NBC News are “parting ways,” and earlier this week that Today show senior producer in DC Susan LaSalla is taking a buyout.

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Today on the podcast: Cuts yesterday at NPR, future cuts at Newsweek and is YouTube a media location to make money? Also joining us is FishbowlDC‘s Patrick Gavin, who broke news yesterday about the NPR cuts.

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> Update to the “Menu”: Katie Couric was at the CBS holiday party last night and stopped to talk with TVNewser’s Chris Ariens. “How are things in TVNewser-land?” she asked us. “Great,” was our answer.

Greta Van Susteren called out The Washington Post’s “The Reliable Source” column today on Gretawire because the column did not “get the facts right” in a seemingly harmless item about Gov. Sarah Palin.

It relates to Tammy Haddad‘s video of birthday wishes for The Huffington Post’s Hilary Rosen, which featured Anderson Cooper, Tucker Carlson and Palin, among others. The item says she taped the greeting after her interview with Van Susteren, and then held up a sign saying ‘Happy Birthday.’ “She’d misspelled Rosen’s name, but was a good sport about giving a shout-out to someone who criticized her a lot during the campaign,” the item reads.

But Van Susteren took the credit for the misspelling today. “It was my mistake,” she writes. “It was not Governor Palin’s mistake! If the Washington Post had called me before it printed the below, I would have been happy to tell the facts.”

> Update: Amy Argetsinger, one of the authors of “The Reliable Source,” emails TVNewser: “And, you know, if Greta had called us first before blogging about us, we would have been happy to apologize and run a clarification. Naturally, we’re still happy to apologize and run a clarification.”

• Related: FBDC’s Patrick Gavin has dozens of pictures from the party, and after the jump, the full tribute video from Haddad’s site.

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• FishbowlDC’s Patrick Gavin writes about a roast of fake-newser Stephen Colbert at the Spina Bifida Association event Friday (organized by tvnewsers Judy Woodruff and Al Hunt). When it was Colbert’s turn at the mic, he said “Good luck in Pennsylvania on that run,” to Chris Matthews, who was in the crowd. Check out all the details and pictures of the event (image of Matthews via Liz Glover).

• FishbowlNY’s Glynnis MacNicol asks, “Does Rupert Murdoch have an Obama-Shaped Hole in his Heart?” The New York Times’ explores the idea in the context of the New York Post’s coverage.

• FishbowlLA’s Tina Dupuy highlights the only non-President-elect Barack Obama portion of 60 Minutes last night, Andy Rooney‘s segment about the declining state of newspapers. Rooney’s main blame — TV news.