Morning Reading List 09.21.09

The Greater Washington Fashion Chamber of Commerce toasts Kiki Ryan's new position with Politico at the Silver Spring home of Jessica Hoy on Sunday. 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. Happy Birthday to Kiki Ryan, on her first day at Politico with Click! What know and what we're reading this Monday morning... NEWSPAPERS | TV | ONLINE | MAGAZINES | BOOKS | NEWS NOTES | WEST WING REPORTAGE NEWSPAPERS WaPo interviews Secretary of State Hillary Clinton. WaPo ombudsman Andrew Alexander examines the paper's ACORN coverage after they were flooded with angry callers prompted by Fox News' Glenn Beck. "It's tempting to dismiss such gimmicks. Fox News, joined by right-leaning talk radio and bloggers, often hypes stories to apocalyptic proportions while casting competitors as too liberal or too lazy to report the truth. But they're also occasionally pumping legitimate stories. I thought that was the case with ACORN..." TV Tom DeLay makes his debut on "Dancing with the Stars" this fine evening. "So you're trying to ambush the ambusher?" Friday at the Values Voter Summit, a ThinkProgress.org staffer caught up with FNC producer Jesse Watters, known for his ambush interviews which end up on "The O'Reilly Factor." TVNewser has the video. NYT's Brian Stelter caught up with CBS' Katie Couric, who says she's staying in the anchor chair, and also will start hosting a weekly interview webcast on CBSNews.com, beginning tomorrow. Her first guest will be Glenn Beck. The night after he hosts the President, David Letterman will have a second President, when Bill Clinton joins him on "The Late Show" Tuesday. Obama tapes "The Late Show" today around 4pm. ONLINE A study by the University of Maryland reveals, shockingly, that the vast majority of politicians' tweets are about themselves. MAGAZINES Bloomberg has submitted its bid for BusinessWeek mag. Esquire named its 75 Best People in the World- journos whos make the cut include Fox News' Shepard Smith, CBS' Lara Logan, MSNBC's Rachel Maddow and Pat Buchanan, NBC's Lester Holt and Rupert Murdoch. NEWS NOTES Journos are losing jobs at three times the rate of average workers. WaPo: The Federal Communications Commission's proposal of new rules to prevent companies such as AT&T, Verizon and Comcast from deliberately blocking or slowing certain Web traffic is expected to advance with three votes out of the five-member agency, according to sources. Reliable Source noticed a documentary film crew following Van Jones this weekend. WEST WING REPORTAGE The pool reported yesterday that NYT's Tom Friedman played a round of golf with President Obama yesterday, prompting all sorts of "the green is flat" jokes in our Twitterverse. IN MEMORIAM WaPo: Irving Kristol, 89, a forceful essayist, editor and university professor who became the leading architect of neoconservatism, which he called a political and intellectual movement for disaffected ex-liberals, like himself, who had been "mugged by reality," died Friday. HAT TIPS: mediabistro, TVNewser, Daniel Lippman

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