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Inside the Bubble: The Attack of the Giant Blog Words

• Animatronic anchors Elizabeth Vargas and Bob Woodruff (hybrid models with auto-shutdown and cruise control) will continue to host ABC's "World News Tonight," winning out over standard transimission hostbot Charlie Gibson, who still runs on diesel. [ABC]
• Hacktasatic Jon Friedman calls "The Week" journalism's "first blogazine." No, wait -- it's a magalog! A Zlog? What does that make "The Best Week Ever"? A blogedy? And the "Nightly News" -- that's a blogcastnewslog. CNN's Blog Report is a bloport. And Times Select still sucks. [CBS Marketwatch]
• Anchlogger Brian Williams is a "dog person." HOW CAN HE BE A BLOGGER THEN? [WaPo]
• FishbowlDC on the quitting/re-hiring of Postie Gabe Escobar: "Escobar is one of the Post's only Hispanic editors (the only other one we can think of is Emilio Garcia-Ruiz, Assistant Managing Editor/Sports." National Book Award Finalist American Chica author and editor of Washington Post Book World Maria Arana, on the other hand, is just a girl who likes to read. [Fishbowl DC]
• Howie Kurtz on why the MSM blogs (Mblogsmers): "Actually, we're just trying to look cool." [WashingtonPost.com]
• David Corn hearts Viveca Novak, can't guard her husband. Perhaps her conversation with Rove's lawyer sparked a revelation: "maybe my client did not tell me everything." [DavidCorn.com]

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Inside the Bubble: Television News News You Can Use

• The future of television news is "no more anchors." Just Wolf Blitzer, pacing in front of a drive-in movie theater screen. [NYM]
• Kaus's verdict on TimesSelect: "Inhibited writers, inhibited linkers, inhibited dialogue." [Slate]
• CNN operator sees X on Cheney's face as not so much an accident but an act of God. [NYP]
• The new Nightline went live. Live, damn it. Did we mention it's LIVE LIVE LIVE? (Please add nude girls.) [TVNewser]
• Howie Kurtz like Katie Couric for her mind. Or close to it: "Hey, I'm way too professional to think about her legs (though it's hard not to keep track of her ever-blonder hair)." [WP]

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Is Maureen Dowd Necessary?*

If there's one thing we've realized thanks to the Maureen Down mediagasm it's this: Thank God we aren't as smart as she is or else we'd never have found a husband. Saturday's Washington Post elaborated on Maureen's scary brilliance; except -- bear with us -- she does get some. Wha? As she told Howie Kurtz: "Any woman who criticizes men for a living -- which I do because politics is still male-dominated -- may have a harder time getting dates. I get plenty."

She's solved the brilliant woman problem! But how? We've been wrapping our feeble man-attracting minds around that one for two days now. Please help.

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*Apparently someone else came up with this very same headline, itself a riff on the Thurber-White classic, "Is Sex Necessary?" We should have gone with our first choice: "Are Punny Headlines Necessary?"

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