Morning Reading List 06.18.09

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. Roll Call celebrated a 54th birthday this week. Happy birthday to CNN minx, Meryl Conant (clearly added by MD)!! What we know and what we're reading this Thursday morning... NEWSPAPERS | TV | ONLINE | NEWS NOTES | WEST WING REPORTAGE | JOBS NEWSPAPERS One of the new bidders for the Boston Globe says he will work with the union. TV CNBC's Carl Quintanilla is the new father of twin girls. NBC's Ann Curry, CNN's Rick Sanchez, FNC's Clayton Morris and Today show producer Ryan Osborn talked social media and foreign reporting yesterday at the 140 Characters Conference in New York. TVNewser has the dets. ONLINE Bob Sullivan's msnbc.com blog "The Red Tape Chronicles" hit a milestone this week: its 100,000th reader comment. Congrats Bob! (h/t WebNewser) C-SPAN's BookTV.org has a redesign. NEWS NOTES NYT: The visas for many of the foreign journalists in Iran are expiring this week, depriving the world of independent sources of information about the violent protests that erupted after the disputed presidential election. Larry Kramer on The Daily Beast says the media can profit from Twitter's big week, Jack Shafer on Slate says we shouldn't get carried away about Twitter's role in Iran's demonstrations. YouTube is still blocked in Iran. WEST WING REPORTAGE Fox News anchors are responding to comments that President Obama made in an interview with CNBC's John Harwood earlier this week- "I've got one television station entirely devoted to attacking my administration," Obama said. "You'd be hard-pressed, if you watched the entire day, to find a positive story about me on that front." Steve Doocy: "Look, we are just balancing things out. When you watch the other channels, the news channels, it's all -- you know, you don't hear a lot of the criticism." And Greta Van Susteren on her blog: "I don't think the President is afraid of Fox - he is a very smart and tough man - but I do think he holds a grudge. There is a huge Fox audience that he represents since he is the President of all Americans." HAT TIPS: mediabistro JOBS after the jump... JOBS Check out MediaJobsDaily.

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Morning Reading List 06.18.09

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