[anita]

ABC's this week makes into nuggets.

This sunday's Media Nuggets

###### Candidned Camera moment! - “Walk and Talk” on camera with President Bush in rural North Carolina. After a few minutes, Mr. Bush observed, with some glee, “Man, you’re sweating.” - that was George Stephanopoulos. Indeed, Mr. Stephanopoulos had begun perspiring so profusely that he was forced to retreat inside a giant refrigerator at a cafeteria near where the conversation was taking place, before continuing.

###### Stubborn, Defiant Media -> on Iraq. Even Fox News, so often cartooned as the rosy-news channel, had a ratio of 30 percent negative stories to 20 percent positive.

###### Associated with terrorists Press Holds Pity Party for Deported Terror Sympathizer. Deported imam rejected by 72 nations had nowhere to turn.

###### Paging NARAL & Planned Parenthood! - "Being pregnant is such a romantic time in a woman's life. There is so much love and support that surrounds a pregnant woman.", says Fox 's Alisyn Camerota.

###### Bogus Associated with democrats Press story - debunked by the New Media.

###### Network wars - As NBC adds 4-th hour to Today show, ABC is planning to add 3-rd hour to GMA. Meanwhile, NBC hires John Yang - who was fired from ABC a week before. While ABC's GMA was courting "Fox tested" Tiki Barber, NBC's Today grabbed him. Larry King says Fox News is a Republican brand.

###### Ins, Outs.... - Anne Kornblut, who NYTimes assigned to cover Mrs.Clinton jumps to Wash.Post. Jed Babbin becomes the Editor of Human Events magazine. Time Magazine signs up Conservative Richard Brookhiser in addition to Bill Kristol. Meanwhile, Andrew Sullivan is OUT from Time. CNN after Glenn Beck's rating success, is piloting Philly Radio Talk Show Host Michael Smerconish for a future unnamed show. "Are You Smarter Than a Fifth Grader?" is the new Fox Reality Show.

###### Katie Couric upset that no one else wearing a skirt @ WH during anchors meet-up with the Prez.

###### When "reporting" lack facts, sell it as fiction. Wash. Post's Web site is publishing fiction for the first time, serializing a novel written by Wash.Post' business reporter David Hilzenrath (whose doom & gloom reportage on economy flopped).

###### Washington Post to Partner with The Onion , REALLY!

###### Wash.Post's choice of American Hero - The Man in your Garbage! So we call 'em Washington ComPost!

###### Hilarious! - Hannity and the Homeless.

###### Blloodbath @ Time! - Casualties Nearly 300 Jobs. People Magazine is shutting down its bureaus in Washington, Miami, Chicago and Austin, Texas. Time and Sports Illustrated also expected staff layoffs. Time, the company’s flagship magazine, is also cutting more than 40 people, and is shutting down bureaus in Los Angeles, Chicago, Atlanta. 7 positions in its Washington bureau are being eliminated. Newspaper Guild calls it "Unmerciful Axe"!

###### Philadelphia Inquirer Editor seeing a therapist! - Reason? More work, smaller paychecks, disappearing pensions, reduced workforces, redefined job descriptions are all realities of today's newspaper business. Employees who start to feel the "pressure to perform" .

###### After Colbert debacle last year, Comedian and impersonator Rich Little is chosen for this year's WH Correspondents' Association Dinner.

[Laverne]

YOurs is one post I always look forward to on this thread. Thanks as always for posting the media nuggets. Here is one other one, FYI. From: http://mediabistro.com/tvnewser/



What Katie "Didn't Say About the Briefing"
Katie Couric "noticed something unusual" at last week's White House briefing for network anchors: she was "the only woman there."

But there's something she didn't say about the meeting, Dick Prince says: "Missing from Couric's observation -- and those of the readers and media writers -- was that there were zero journalists of color in the room..."

[Ernest_at_the_Beach]

MSM is ....out to lunch....BBC has the important stories:

Doesn't take much to get their attention:

Duck survives two days in fridge

[rodguy911]

Great stuff as usual anita! Dam I hate to see Tiki go over to the dark side!

[samantha]

Great Nuggets as usual....... I did not know Rich Little was still alive, what is with that? Maybe he is the only clean guy left in Hollywood. I could see "Steffy" in a size 1 Dress so Katie would not be so alone. Too bad the Big Union Rats in all the Media are screwing over all the Union People, could not happen to more deserving people. I see a lot of anger building which may blow sky high pretty soon, how much longer can the DBM carry the Liberal Rats and the DNC water?

[Txsleuth]

Thanks for the nuggets again this week.

I noticed that People Magazine is closing offices and laying off people.

I can understand why...why do people need to buy that magazine, when the NEWS cable shows spend so much time on the gossip of Hollywood?

[CDB]

Thanks, Anita. Your "media nuggets" are quite simply the best.

Katie Couric's use of the word, "jocular" (as Rush Limbaugh observed during one of his programs this week) is very curious, indeed. Does she really NOT know the meaning of the word or was she just trying to be cute? Ah, the inscrutable perky one.