Taking Out The Trash. 09.20.06

It seems Adrian Fenty plays better with the press than Mayor Anthony Williams. And, for those who were wondering, dipping is largely a don't. TVNewser tells us that tonight "on CNBC's Mad Money: Jim Cramer's college tour continues with a visit to Boston College. Tim Russert is his on-campus guest..." Extreme Mortman on Howard Kurtz's "ruling." Today, HOTSOUP announced five more HOTSOUP community members: Barack Obama, Scott McClellan, Mary Matalin, Dick Cheney, Davis Guggenheim and Heidi Boynton. Brendan Nyhan tells his side of the TAP break-up. In light of President Bush's visit to the UN, John Cochran gave a first-person account of his experience covering President Eisenhower at the UN in 1960. And another TVNewser nugget: "MSNBC averaged 197,000 viewers in the 25-54 demo in prime last week, the cabler's best primetime delivery since Sept. 19, 2005..." Reuters is giving Jay Rosen's "experiment," NewAssignment.Net, $100,000. The money will "underwrite the costs of hiring" the first editor, who will start in early '07. The City Paper found a priceless WaPo.com funny. Jack Shafer's take on the New York Times Reader, a new computer edition that was released today: "The Times Reader succeeds -- as no other software has -- in cramming a daily newspaper into a computer and making it 1) readable and 2) navigable." Are CT FNC viewers in danger of losing their station? Meanwhile, why was CNN the only network to air Mahmoud Ahmadinejad's UN speech live? So Richard Armitage was on the record the whole time? Doh! Carl Bernstein stands by his man, resulting in "a rousing ovation." IU released a study showing that there are fewer full time journos working for daily newspapers and radio stations. Also fewer journos identify themselves as Dems. The FCC "declared the latest and most lucrative auction of the public airwaves closed on Monday, with bids totaling nearly $13.9 billion." The AP reported that the commission auctioned off 1,087 licenses over 28 days -- the largest amount of radio spectrum usable for wireless services made available since the agency went to an auction format in '94. The proceeds will go to the U.S. Treasury.

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Taking Out The Trash. 09.20.06

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