Sticky Notes

Here's a handy new tool. Now any blogger can easily calculate how much they will owe the AP when they excerpt a headline or story!! Keep it close by on your desk. Fits under your laptop cover so it's right there when you're blogging on the road. 

   So CBS is thinking about hookin' up with CNN for reporting?

From TV Newser: " 'The NYTimes' Tim Arango writes about the latest chapter in the CBS/CNN talks. It's an arrangement that would reduce "CBS's news-gathering capacity while keeping its frontline personalities, like Katie Couric, and paying a fee to CNN to buy the cable network's news feeds." Insiders told Arango another option would call for "CBS to keep its correspondents in certain regions but pair them with CNN crews." "

The AngryJournalist.com - from a link at Breitbart:

Where journalists unload. Mostly about stupid bosses and long hours and low pay. Young ones that invested a fortune in J school, and can't find good jobs. Interesting stuff.

And quite a few posts leveled at the journalism world to get real and suck it up. 

This was covered a lot yesterday but it is so juicy.  NYT's own headline: He May Be Unwelcome, but We'll Survive. Read it.

Lisa Benson, Townhall.com 

    "The United States might be the only country in world history that reverse-propagandizes itself, magnifying its setbacks and ignoring its successes so that nothing can disturb what Sen. Joe Lieberman calls the “narrative of defeat.”

Is this not so on the money? Great line from Rich Lowry at NRO.   H/T to ACE.

Rosie and MSNBC. Go together like a [draft] horse and carriage. Can't have one without the other. Bush-bashing for ratings. Certainly not for intelligent conversation. Or balanced commentary. She's rude and a bully and gets rewarded for it. Go figure.

This from the NYT, more at ACE.  Newsbusters has the best line: It's a liberal cable network's dream.

  I never I thought I would see that in print - from a study by the Project for Excellence in Journalism and the Joan Shorenstein Center on the Press. Highlights:

•  But the tone of the coverage for the top two front-runners — Democrat Hillary Rodham Clinton and Republican Rudy Giuliani — hardly was friendly.
• Stories focused more on fundraising and polls than on where candidates stood on the issues
• Democrats, overall, got more coverage — and more positive ink and airtime — than Republicans.
• If American politics is changing, the report concluded,  the style and approach of the American press does not appear to be changing with it.

French President Nicolas Sarkozy walked out of an interview with US CBS television news show 60 minutes, according to a clip of the show released Sunday in advance of the interview's airing.

 He was not happy about having been scheduled for an interview. You can hear that at the beginning. He DOES like America, tho.
Seems he walked out when Leslie Stahl asked about his wife leaving him.