Notes on the Idiot Box

Some television notes this morning from cousin TVNewser:

• In what might be the least surprising piece of news ever, Roger Ailes says he hates “The Situation Room”: “What they’ve decided is they’re not getting the ratings with their programming, so they’ve decided to get the ratings with their walls.”

• Over at the Huffington Post, Harry Shearer asks whether August is a slow news time because it’s slow or because the press gets even lazier than usual.