Morning Reading List 06.19.09

Good morning FishbowlDC! Got a blind item, interesting link, funny note, comment, birthday, anniversary or anything of the sort for Morning Reading List? Drop us a line. Tonight's the Radio & TV Correspondents Association Dinner. Scroll down FBDC for all the dets. What we know and what we're reading this Friday morning... NEWSPAPERS | TV | ONLINE | NEWS NOTES | WEST WING REPORTAGE | JOBS NEWSPAPERS The Boston Globe union has set a date to vote on a new contract, though no agreement has been met with the newspaper's owner, NYT. NYT executive editor Bill Keller on his reporting on Iran in E&P. "Do people in the media crit game really think editors are supposed to be desk jockeys who never go get a sense of the story?" he writes. "Or is the idea that when a big, exhausting news breaks visiting editors should hole up in the hotel?" TV Long Live the Nightly News! Fortune: Despite a steady erosion in their collective audience and an aging viewership, the big three nightly newscasts are hardly dead. Actually, they draw an average 21 million viewers every night. Andrew Tyndall says there's a good reason for that -- they're still the best daily snapshot of news on television. Vice President Joe Biden just isn't pulling the ratings for Sunday shows that he used to. TVNewser has the numbers of his last appearances on "Meet the Press" versus past appearances on "This Week" and "Face the Nation." ONLINE Today was TVNewser's Steve Krakauer's last day on the Morning Media Menu. Listen in here. NEWS NOTES It appears the legendary Walter Cronkite is gravely ill. He is 92. WEST WING REPORTAGE Daily Finance "Obama takes on Fox News, loses": When is Barack Obama going to learn that presidents shouldn't play press critic? It didn't work for Richard Nixon. It didn't work for Bill Clinton or George W. Bush. It didn't help John McCain win the White House, and it won't help Obama, who vented his frustration with Fox News Wednesday. CNN's keeping tabs on WH Press Secretary Robert Gibbs' tardiness. "Gibbs was a total of 13 hours and 46 minutes late to his own press briefings in the month of May alone. Of the 19 briefings held by Gibbs in May, the White House officially pushed the scheduled start time back 14 times (although: one time they actually made it earlier.) That averages out to a delay of roughly 28 minutes a day - a total of 8 hours and 50 minutes for the month." There was speculation yesterday that President Obama would make a surprise appearance in Gibbs' daily press briefing. When he didn't, a few reporters were left disappointed, including CBS' Mark Knoller. Read through here. Also at the WH yesterday- Bob Woodward. Mike Memoli tweets his run-in. HAT TIPS: mediabistro, Politico JOBS after the jump... JOBS Check out MediaJobsDaily.

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Morning Reading List 06.19.09

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