The Ticker: Chetry, Crowley, Chen…

> Who was first with news of the Israeli airstrike on Qana? An e-mailer says FNC had the news before CNN and MSNBC…

> Viewers noticed Kiran Chetry‘s absence from Saturday’s Fox & Friends…

> Did you see this Virginian-Pilot editorial telling Keith Olbermann to “take note?” It reminds him that Nazi jokes are “not funny…”

> MSNBC’s Monica Crowley will host “The Best of Imus” on MSNBC August 3 and 4, according to her Web site

> Lost Remote’s Cory Bergman thinks the media is primarily to blame for a recent U.S. House vote to ban social networking sites from public schools and libraries. He “thanks” Dateline NBC for hyping and over-generalizing the danger of Internet predators…

> Julie Chen owns a coffee mug that makes fun of her…

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