• MoDo thinking too hard about “Commander and Chief” to give us insight onto her favorite websites. [E&P]
• Nightline leaving the Beltway for the bright lights of Broadway? [NYO]
• NYer caption contest noms just for media people: “I’m gonna go with a qualified ‘aye’: I think Harriet could take Condi, but only if she wasn’t wearing The Boots.” [FishbowlNY]
• “The sensational accounts [of post-Katrina New Orleans] delayed rescue and evacuation efforts already hampered by poor planning and a lack of coordination among local, state and federal agencies.” If only the President had gotten out of Air Force One to look for himself. [WP]
• Will Dan Rather get his Howard Beale moment? [BC Beat]

• The WaPo’s internal message board allow real journalists to live the dream of being bloggers. [WP]
• Jon Stewart makes big magazine editors feel small. [FishbowlNY, WWD (last item)]
• Snark from the Times: “Margaret Spellings, reacted to the report by calling [the Education department's purchase of good coverage] ’stupid, wrong and ill advised.’ We hope she noticed that they were also illegal.” [NYT]
• David Shuster does not go gently into that good Fox fight. [TVNewser]
• We don’t know much about Harriet Miers, but we do know mousse. [CJR Daily] MORE »

• CNN’s opinion of its viewers, encapsulated in the DC bureau chief’s description of “The Blog Report”: “It’s sort of like Blogs 101…Or the Reader’s Digest of blogs. Or Blogs for Dummies.” They said it, not us. [NYO]
• Isikoff on Cooper: He should have tried to “cajole [Rove] into going on the record and leaning on him with information gleaned from other sources. Instead, Isikoff asserted, ‘It seems like Time stopped reporting.’” [Media Nation]
• Anderson Cooper and Aaron Brown have hot co-anchor action. [TVNewser]
• Rumors of violence in New Orleans prove to be just rumors, but Bush still glad he didn’t actually have to go until it was dry and stuff. [NYT and NOLA]
• CBS’s “Public Eye” has tin ear: Headlines regarding “Early Show” exec Michael Bass include “Reeling In A Bass” and “Pump Up The Bass.”
• “Inside the Bubble,” the movie: “Watching the film is going to subject you to a lot of ungainly behavior.” [ABC] Also: The Stephanie Factor returns (WM).

• “Silver Spring, Md.: What happened to rumors that Jake Tapper would take over Nightline? He’s young and hip and can bring them a more diverse audience. His new ABC blog, for instance, demonstrates his array of talents.” Did Jake move? [WP]
• “I find it disturbing that any Times editor would come so close to implying - almost in a tit-for-tat sense - that Mr. Rivera’s bad behavior essentially entitles the paper to rely on assumptions and refuse to correct an unsupported fact.” [NYT]
• Could dreamy Chief Justice Roberts preside over getting cameras into the courts? [OrderintheCourt]
• “A Pocatello weatherman who gained attention for an unusual theory that Hurricane Katrina was caused by the Japanese mafia using a Russian electromagnetic generator has quit the television station.” [AP]

• Washington Whispers: Trent Lott found his refrigerator three blocks from his house and inside were two sentimental bottles of champagne. . . D.C. television viewers are sick of Barack Obama. . . George H.W. Bush’s presidential library plans to add mock press briefing room. . . Robert Bork jokes, “How do you pronounce Souter in Spanish? Gonzales.”. . . News-addicted actor Joe Pantoliano likes “the girls” on MSNBC, especially Natalie Morales. . . [USN&WR]
• Lloyd Grove’s Lowdown: Brian Lamb marries someone named Victoria. Spokeswoman: “They were married in a small, private ceremony in the Washington area and Brian was in the office all week”. . . Hillary supporters hope “Inside the Bubble,” a new documentary about the Kerry-Edwards campaign, will end his chances in ‘08. Kerry flack David Wade: “The 20 poor souls subjected to this movie will be reaching for caffeine and begging for old Lamar Alexander tapes on C-SPAN2. Michael Moore has nothing to fear. I think the working title was ‘The Snore Room.’” [NYDN]

MORE »

• “Inside the Bubble,” the Kerry-Edwards documentary. First time as tragedy, second time as mildly amusing home movie.
• Bianca, Bianca, Bianca: This year’s “Mary, help“?
• The Gareth of al Qaeda: “No, really, guys: Infidels! Let’s just toss some ideas out; run it up the flagpole and see who salutes? Then we kill them.”
• “Corporate America Cuddles Up to Gays”
• Iraq drives Bush to drink. Yeah, right. Sure. He’s so upset by it.
• Unleash Chang.

More clips from “Inside the Bubble,” a documentary about the John Kerry summer camp and home for wayward boys. In these scenes, we learn more reasons why John Kerry is not the president of the United States. First, the NYT conspired against him:

By any objective standard, what the fuck is that? This is the fucking New York Times fucking Magazine! Look at the fucking picture! Look at the inside! They’re not trying to fuck us?

Really it was more of a “clusterfuck,” we think. Also:

There were a couple times where I said, Steph, these guys are having negative personal reactions to your personality. You need to hear that.

Now if only someone had said that to Kerry…. MORE »

• Judy Miller has enough to read, thank you. [Gawker]
• A “blog-induced emetic” covers NPR in complaints over Goldberg subbing for Schorr. [NPR]
• Bush to do live interview on GMA tomorrow. [TVNewser]
• “This just in: Hurricane Reporter Killed”: TVSpy posters debate what it will take to end weatherporn. If it should be ended: “when did you all you gets get so wimpy. i need to see death and dismemberment before i know how awful it is. and better a reporter than a real person.” [TVSpy]

• Brooks column Dowd-ifies Bush critic. [VV]
• War reporting puts things in perspective: “I sang in the shower this morning because the water was hot and because no one was trying to kill me.” [NYT]
• The Weekly Standard: “Fox News without the blondes.” But with Matt Labash! [WP]
• Parody: You know, for kids! [Newsday]
• Bad weather makes anchors cranky. [TVNewser]

• Have you missed Bill Hemmer and his cute non-prescription spectacles? They’ll be on Fox Monday around noon. Also: cable news bloggers have their claws out. . . for each other! [ICN and TVNewser]
• Aaron Brown rumored to be on the outs at CNN; Klein’s deft touch at work again? [The Cable Game]
• Advice to the young newsreader: “Gaining trust takes a lot more than leaning back during the closing credits and smoking a pipe.” [TVSpy]
• Jon Stewart on the “Crossfire” clip: “It was definitely viral. I felt nauseous afterward.” [Wired]
• Is there such a thing as news junkie fan fiction? If it does exist, there is a soundtrack: “Does anyone know of any good, downloadable news music done by fans / amateur musicians? Fan music can sometimes be surprisingly good, so I’m curious if anyone has attempted to compose news themes…” [TVNewsTalk]

• Mediated liveblogging of CourtTV’s Plame-riffic panel at Michael’s today. [Fishgirl]
• Arianna believes Fitzgerald might be swayed from slapping Miller with criminal contempt because everyone likes her so much. Because Fitzgerald is so concerned with what everyone thinks. [HuffPo via E&P]
• Meanwhile, Lou Dobbs treats Floyd Abrams like the biggest deal since closed borders. [CNN]
• “World News Tonight” retires Jennings’s jersey. [TVNewser]
• Watch out, Drudge: Here comes “weathertainment.” [AJC via WH@CNN]