> Salon's Sidney Blumenthal has a 3,500-word piece on the Dan Rather suit against CBS & Viacom. The summation: Rather "is not going gentle into that good night."

> FishbowlDC says NBC's DC boss skipped a radio appearance this morning, to see The Boss live on the Rockefeller Plaza.

> CNN is going all out to promote the upcoming Planet in Peril series. Anderson Cooper is going to do one-minute daily radio reports for CNN Radio affiliates. Planet in Peril is a four-hour documentary "about issues threatening the planet and its inhabitants."