Taking Out The Trash, 03.02.07

Leading today's caption contest so far is "Wait... I keep getting this wrong - so first you mix in the polonium, then the sugar?" From Pew's Weekly News Interest Index: "Iraq remained the top news story last week, both in terms of public interest and news coverage. Anna Nicole Smith's death and the bizarre aftermath continued to attract a distinct yet devoted audience. In spite of the fact that most Americans think Smith's death has been over-covered, the core audience for the story gives the press high marks for its coverage. Other top stories of the week included the 2008 presidential campaign, mounting tensions between the U.S. and Iran, conditions at Walter Reed Army Medical Center, and the rescue of three climbers from Oregon's Mt. Hood." An ABC release announced that "World News with Charles Gibson" won the February sweeps among viewers and adults 25-54. This is the first across the board sweeps win for ABC since 1996. Voice of America is hiring an executive editor. After getting in their digs at the Washingtonian by saying "Washingtonian joins the 21st century," DCist gives a plug for alumna Catherine Andrews and the new Washingtonian blogs, calling them "largely interesting reading." A reader writes in saying that "This tipster is just whining: Go take a survey of how many women are WH correspondents. CNN had an all female WH team (still might), ABC's lead and #2 are women (Raddatz and Yellin), and then there's Norah O'Donnell and the incoming head of the White House Correspondents Association is a woman (Ann Compton, ABC Radio). That's just off the top of my head. I'm sure there are lots of others." Do leap years have a special meaning for reporters? Washington Business Journal reports, "AOL has found a new CFO, snatching an executive from parent company Time Warner." Nisha Kumar, vice president of operations at New York-based Time Warner, will serve as the CFO at Dulles-based AOL. C-SPAN2's Book TV is airing on Saturday Arthur Schlesinger, Jr's last television interview conducted with Book TV last week in New York City. The show will air at 8:25 a.m. and 9 p.m. Dan Gerstein thinks it ain't no thing that he "used The Politico as a platform partly to settle the old scores of -- and to advance the current agenda of -- a paying client, but without mentioning the 'paying' part." A huge discussion taking place in the comments section of Arianna Huffington's post, "Limbaugh, Hannity, and the Right's Faux Fury Over Anonymous Comments." Newsweek's Richard Wolffe and Holly Bailey look into the "senior administration official," concluding that while "Most reporters would prefer never to quote a White House official on background. But that means never getting anything out of most White House officials." Slate's Timothy Noah rescued himself from Wikipedia obscurity. Hugh Hewitt points to the Politico as more than a paper, but as a substitute for other paper's D.C. bureaus. CJR Daily gives James Taranto "a history lesson on of digital death threats." E&P reports that Salon's Mark Benjamin says he beat the Washington Post to the punch on the Walter Reed story. "Reportedly, he has sent Priest links to his articles -- which covered a wide range of issues at Walter Reed -- and also contacted Post media critic Howard Kurtz." Eric Boehlert on TNR's new owner.

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Taking Out The Trash, 03.02.07

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