Meet the Press: Chris Dodd and a political roundtable with New York Daily News' Tom DeFrank and New York Times' William Safire.
Face the Nation: Sen. Lindsey Graham and Carl Levin and Politico's Roger Simon.
Fox News Sunday: FLOTUS Laura Bush, Gov. elect Bobby Jindal, and Shakespeare Theatre Company Artistic Director Michael Khan.
This Week: John McCain, Sen. Dianne Feinstein and Duncan Hunter.
Late Edition: IAEA Director General Mohamed ElBaradei, Sens. Barbara Boxer and Trent Lott and Mike Huckabee, and a roundtable with CNN's Ed Henry and Candy Crowley.
C-SPAN's Newsmakers: Rep. John Spratt will be interviewed by Roll Call's Ashley Roque and Hill's Mike Soraghan.
Chris Matthews Show: David Gregory, NBC News Chief White House correspondent; Katty Kay, BBC Washington correspondent; David Ignatius, Washington Post columnist; and Jennifer Loven, Associated Press White House correspondent.
Bloomberg's Political Capital with Al Hunt: Rep. Charlie Rangel.
You can't tell us a drunk, unnamed screech owl does not provide amusing imagery.
"After the travel pool left the Inn at Perry Cabin we waited a short time to join the presidential motorcade leaving the Cheneys
residence. White House aides informed us that Maryland Crab Cakes were served at lunch, an important distinction for some of the local correspondents in tow. The president and pool left St. Michaels a little ahead of schedule. Pool landed at Fort McNair around 2:30 p.m., and returned to White House around 2:50 p.m., when Lid was called." -- Jason Dick, CongressDaily
"Short helicopter ride from the Beltsville Secret Service facility across the Chesapeake Bay was uneventful save pooler's memories of untold hours on the Chesapeake Bay Bridge dreaming of salt water taffy or crab cakes while stuck in traffic. A sizable crowd met President Bush at the Chesapeake Bay Maritime Museum. Before discussing the executive order he would soon sign, the president pointed out to the crowd of fishing enthusiasts, journalists, bystanders and girl scouts that First Lady Laura Bush had skipped the event and had headed to the St. Micheal's weekend home of Vice President Dick Cheney ahead of their later scheduled lunch. 'I guess you could say she's the taster,' Bush said, to laughter." -- Dick
"Bush told the crowd he would be heading out to do a little fishing, because, referring to Cheney, 'The Secret Service won't let me go hunting with him,' likely referring to Cheney's infamous 2006 hunting accident, when he shot his friend Henry Whittington in Texas while quail hunting." -- Dick
"After a short helicopter ride to the Secret Service training facility in Beltsville, Maryland, and a swift motorcade to the Patuxent Wildlife Refuge grounds, President Bush and First Lady Laura Bush took a brief tour of the Patuxent Research Refuge before connecting at about 8:45 a.m. with the travel pool at Cash Lake and meeting a screech owl. The screech owl was tended to by Glenn Olsen, the veterinary medical officer at the research center. The screech owl, looking a bit sleepy and wary of the dozens of visitors and cameras, has no name, your pool was informed. The reason? He's a research animal and they don't get names here at the Patuxent facility. He is also not endangered and is quite common in the eastern United States, the president was informed by Olsen. The reason for the nameless screech owl's apparent drowsiness, we were informed, is he is primarily a nocturnal creature, prompting Bush's first early morning quip for the pool: 'Like the press corps. They sleep by day and fly by night.'" -- Dick
"Bush is lunching with biz leaders at the Whole Hog Cafe. They are in a back room around a big table. Bush had what appeared to be a heaping plate o' barbecue. Pool was shown in very briefly at the top. 'I'm looking forward to some good northwest Arkansas barbecue,' the president said. And 'the longer you take my picture, the less time I have to eat it.' As we were getting the old heave-ho, the president added his usual admonishment to 'stop off at the counter and buy something. Put some money in the local economy.' -- Julie Mason, Houston Chronicle
Vivian Aplin-Brownlee, 61, a former Washington Post editor who had raised an early alarm about what became the paper's most notorious scandal, died Oct. 20 of complications from leukemia at her home in Washington.
Ms. Aplin-Brownlee, an experienced newswoman who edited The Post's District Weekly section, sent a tenacious and ambitious reporter, Janet Cooke, to check out a report about a new type of heroin on Washington's streets. Cooke returned with notes that eventually became "Jimmy's World," a tale of an 8-year-old heroin addict. The story won the Pulitzer Prize for feature writing in 1981, but it was all made up. The paper returned the award and fired Cooke, and the incident is considered a landmark case in journalism ethics.
NBC's Norah O'Donnell is already well on her way, likewise former NBCer and now CNNer Campbell Brown and Time's Ana Marie Cox, but there's also people like the American Prospect's Garance Franke-Ruta, Slate XXers like Emily Bazelon and Dahlia Lithwick, Megan McArdle at the Atlantic, ABC's Jessica Yellin (who, we hear, is gellin' like a felon).
...who the new "Jill Drew" is at the Washington Post...
The name has started appearing in in the paper as a member of the Foreign Service reporting on Burma. It's actually former Financial AME Jill Dutt, now going by her husband's name. They've been married for years but she only just recently changed her byline.
You guys are old school. You have a landline at home.
An NBC release announced, "According to Nielsen Media Research data, 'Meet the Press with Tim Russert' was the No. 1 Sunday morning public affairs program, winning the week ending Sunday, October 21 in all categories across the nation and in Washington, D.C."
Comcast announced, "John Conwell Named Regional Vice President of Government Affairs for Comcast's Potomac Region." Also, David Lucoff is the new regional vice president of sales and marketing for its Potomac Region covering parts of MD, DC and VA.
New York Times reports, "In the summer of 2006, as Israeli and Hezbollah forces in Lebanon were clashing, Bob Woodruff desperately wished to fly there to report for ABC News. Never mind that it had been less than six months since a roadside explosion in Iraq pocked his brain with shrapnel and other debris, almost killing him."
Forbes reports, "Dow Jones changed hands faster than anyone might have imagined. Could The New York Times be next on the takeover list? Forbes editor Matt Miller asked the four investors on the private equity panel at Forbes 2nd annual MEET conference whether they felt that The New York Times Co. was ripe for a takeover. Three out of four said yes."
Washington Post's Rob Pegoraroreports, "Now many Comcast customers are anxious after reading the Associated Press report last week that the cable-modem service interferes with the BitTorrent file-sharing program. The news has put the Philadelphia-based corporation in an awkward spot and brought the network neutrality debate back to life, just when it seemed that the issue was dead in Washington."
New York Daily News reports, "Whether or not Howard Stern is the king of all media, he's definitely king of satellite radio. Arbitron has released its first-ever ratings for XM and Sirius, covering April-June 2007, and they show that in an average week, 1,225,000 listeners at some point heard Stern."
Street Sense reports, "So our trusty intern reporter Melanie Lidman was out covering Mayor Fenty's announcement of the closing of DC Village, a family emergency shelter, yesterday. The Washington Post reporter next to her had forgotten her camera. So Melanie, generous soul that she is, agreed to have her photographs used by the Post for its own story. The Post, however? Not so generous. There was no money in the budget to pay Melanie for the photo, she was told. So Melanie made the best call she could. As she put it, "Not getting paid for your freelance work: negative $50. Seeing your grandmother's face when she opens the newspaper: priceless :)."
Salon offersSidney Blumenthal's afterword for a reissue of Walter Lippman's 'Liberty and the News,' to be published this month by Princeton University Press.
Wired reports, "Against market trends, Dzanc Books is a small publisher poised to succeed, hiring staff and expanding quickly. And that may be because it sprouted from a blog rather than a traditional printing press, and it is certainly web-savvy."
Washington Post reports, "What Hollywood is calling 'the Judith Miller movie' is now filming on location here, but prepare yourselves: Some changes are being made to the story inspired by the outing of a CIA agent. For starters, in the movie Judith Miller is no longer Judith Miller of the New York Times, but Rachel Armstrong of the Washington Capital Sun. And while the real Judith Miller may be remembered as a stylish, slightly scary reporter of 59, headed off to jail in a quilted black jacket and tortoise-frame sunglasses, in the movie she is a sizzling Kate Beckinsale, 34, dressed in a, shall we say, form-fitting skirt."
The Idaho Stateman reports, "Four months before his arrest in a men's room sex sting, Sen. Larry Craig hired a criminal lawyer for advice on whether he could sue the Idaho Statesman over its investigation into longstanding rumors that he engaged in gay sex, a spokesman said Wednesday."
E&P; reports, "A press conference was held at 1:30 this afternoon at the Philadelphia Inquirer to announce that it has added former Sen. Rick Santorum to its stable of columnists."
According to The Hollywood Reporter, "In a wide-ranging presentation Wednesday, Robert Iger said the best way to fight digital piracy is to go on the offensive and that big media companies are undervalued on Wall Street."
The Associated Press reports, "Parents have become more ambivalent about the Internet, with a new study finding fewer of them considering it good for their children."
Info World reports, "More than half of U.S. residents want the government to regulate Internet video in some way, according to a poll released Wednesday."
Reuters reports, "Two U.S. senators on Wednesday threatened to introduce bipartisan legislation that would block the U.S. Federal Communication Commission from acting quickly to ease rules governing media ownership."
Bloomberg reports, "Comcast Corp., the largest U.S. cable-television company, fell the most in five years in Nasdaq trading after adding fewer phone and Internet subscribers than analysts estimated amid a slump in home sales."
The Hollywood Reporter reports, "Former entertainment mogul Barry Diller said Wednesday that when it comes to the disruptive power of the Internet, incumbent media companies still "don't get it," with the possible exception of News Corp."
Fortune reports, "Merrill Lynch all but hung a 'For Sale' sign today on its 20 percent holding of Bloomberg LP, the financial information company."
Smart Money reports, "Tribune Co. said it agreed to sell two Connecticut newspapers, the Greenwich Time and the Advocate of Stamford, to Hearst Corp. for $62.4 million. The sale, expected to close in the next few weeks, comes five months after the Chicago-based media company's $73 million deal to sell the papers to Gannett Co. (GCI) was scrapped following an arbitrator's ruling that the sale of the Advocate would have violated a union contract."
"The Vanity Fair Oscar-night party, held at Mortons for the past 14 years, is changing its venue to Craft in Century City," reports Variety.
The Guardian unveiled a new MediaGuardian website. "Breaking media news remains at the heart of what we do, as it has done for the seven years since the MediaGuardian website launched, on September 5 2000."
Stars and Stripes reports, "Stars and Stripes served as a conduit for money to promote America Supports You, but the newspaper did not spend any of its own funds on the program, a Stripes official confirmed on Tuesday."
PJNet reports, "Will Bunch, Philadelphia Daily News columnist, has been on a two-year journey to figure out the fate of journalism. At first it was out of self-preservation, but now he has come to see the future of journalism -- and he is very optimistic."
The Pew Weekly News Interest Index shows, "News about the dangers of an antibiotic-resistant staph infection (MRSA) caught the public’s attention last week. More than a quarter of Americans paid very close attention to this story and 18% listed it as the news story they followed most closely -- placing it at the top of the weekly news interest index. Women were particularly interested in the story. The national news media covered the MRSA story, but overall coverage lagged behind public interest."
Washingtonian reports, "The 150 most influential people in business, culture, real estate, religion, education, law, and more. Plus—Washington's hidden power, stars of tomorrow, and places where powerful people live, play, and eat."
The Associated Press reports, "XM Satellite Radio Holdings Inc. said Thursday its third-quarter loss widened as sales through retail outlets slowed and the company faced increased costs related to its planned acquisition by smaller rival Sirius Satellite Radio Inc."
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Dan Steinberg has the photos and the details from last night's media karaoke event.
Good morning Washington.
