You may have viewed this film on other Internet blogs, but if not, prepare to cry. We have attempted several times in the past week to write about all of the mean news journalists — chiefly Dana Milbank, a dreadful clown — accusing HuffPo’s Nico Pitney of asking Barack Obama a “planted question,” from the Iran, but it gets us all hot and bothered, so just watch the fun video, right up there. [YouTube]

• 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]

• 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]

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.” MORE »