The Ticker: King, Blogs, Ailes, Hume…

> Liz Smith is right: Larry King‘s 20th anniversary lineup is great next week. But she says “Dan Rather will appear in his first TV interview since he left the CBS anchor chair,” even though he appeared on Topic A with Tina Brown last week. I hope CNN isn’t touting this as his “first…”

> Joshua Jennings Moss, managing editor of FOXNews.com, talks about blogs in an E&P conference preview: “We’ve gotten to a point where on any given day we’re responding to what other people are writing on blogs…[sometimes] rather than actually doing our own reporting.” It’s a trend that “frankly, I’m a little leery about.”

> Page Six hears “that Henry Kissinger is presenting Fox News Channel chief Roger Ailes with an award June 9 at the Pierre from the Jewish Community Relations Council.”

> Tom Delay references Brit Hume in his Law & Order complaint to Jeff Zucker…