MSNBC host Joe Scarborough crossed the street both literally and ideologically when he appeared twice (so far) on Fox News on Friday to promote his new book "The Right Path."

Appearing on "Fox and Friends" first, Scarborough, who is also a POLITICO columnist, made an obvious joke about the network's audience. 

"So here's the deal, if you want to sell books about Republicans you have to come to the mothership," Scarborough said. "So I came to the mothership."

Steve Doocy tried to interject, "Because we've got the biggest audience."

Scarborough then turned to Elisabeth Hasselbeck, who left "The View" to join "Fox and Friends" this year and said, "You also know something about being in the mission field and then coming home."

"I don't claim to know anything," Hasselbeck said.

Many people were surprised to see the MSNBC host on Fox News. Scarborough told us it was a "nice thing" of MSNBC President Phil Griffin to let him cross the street, and of Fox News President Roger Ailes and Executive Vice President of Programming Bill Shine to let him on.

"I had a great time," Scarborough said. "Phil was really nice to let me walk across the street, and Roger and Bill were equally kind, it was a really nice thing for them to do."

"It was a nice little change on a Friday," he added.

Scarborough then appeared again on Fox News on Friday afternoon. During neither appearance were the words "MSNBC" uttered.

This post has been updated (3:45 p.m.)

Via the man himself:

It’s been only three weeks since I announced that Moyers & Company would end, as originally planned, on January 3. ... What I could not anticipate was the response of our viewers. ... The outpouring is unmistakably about the importance of public broadcasting and the value many people place on our mission to offer a place for sane, calm and civil consideration of what is going on in the world.

Our funders also weighed in with an equally simple but passionate message: keep going. And they have backed those pleas with commitments of underwriting. So, I want to announce today that we indeed will continue with a half-hour weekly broadcast and multimedia offerings that will feature the trademark ideas, interviews and analysis that you have told us are important to you. ... The final episode of our current series will air January 3. One week later — on January 10 — the first episode of the new series, still Moyers & Company, will premiere.

NPR News White House correspondent Scott Horsley has won the election to represent radio correspondents on the White House Correspondents Association board, according to a vote tally forwarded to POLITICO.

Horsley will replace former NPR White House correspondent Ari Shapiro, who is moving to London where he will serve as a UK correspondent.

Horsley won with 73 of 156 votes. Bill Press, the progressive radio show host and former chair of the California Democratic Party, came in second with 49 votes. Though CBS News Radio's Mark Knoller was not on the ballot, he received one vote as a write-in.

Brian Abelson, the OpenNews fellow at the New York Times, takes a deep, deep dive into the metrics of the Times' website, looking at how and why stories get more traffic.

His insight is a fascinating look into how not just the Times, but all news sites promote their work and what sections get the most attention. The main takeaway is that the Times, and for that matter any organization, can selectively decide what will be popular by posting it high on the homepage for a long time and promoting it on social media. Additionally, Abelson's research shows that despite publishing less, stories from sections like dining, opinions and the magazine, tend to do exceptionally well.

The main metrics Abelson uses are whether stories were written by Times journalists or the wires (AP and Reuters), how long the story spent on the Times homepage, and whether the story was tweeted out by the Times' Twitter account to their more than 10 million followers.

What emerges from this visualization is a clear picture of four distinct classes of content on the New York Times’ site: (A) Wire articles which never reached the homepage, (B) Original articles which never reached the homepage, (C) Wire content which is featured on the homepage for a short period of time, and (D) Original content which receives promotion on both the homepage and across social media. While groups A and B encompass a wide variety of outcomes, groups C and D generally display a positive linear relationship between time on homepage and pageviews. 

Abelson then goes on to try and predict how many pageviews a story will get. By factoring in whether the article was from the wires, the time it spent on the homepage, and whether it was tweeted by @NYTimes, Abelson was able to predict 70% of the time how well a story did. By incorporating the type of content (video, photo, etc), the section from which the story came, word count, promotion on Facebook and section fronts and the highest point the story reached on the homepage, Abelson was able to predict with 90% accuracy how well a story would do:

[I]n general, the Times can selectively pick and choose the content that garners the most attention by simply manipulating their homepage and principal Twitter account. This is certainly not an earth-shattering insight, but the degree to which it holds true suggests that these factors cannot be ignored. 

In another part of his analysis, Abelson takes a closer look at the sections whose stories get the most pageviews compared to the numbers of stories posted to those sections as well as how much they are promoted. For example, opinions, dining and the magazine post less stories but the stories that are posted do well. On the other hand, business posts many stories, but tend to not do so well. But Reuters' Felix Salmon helps parse out how promotion factors in to this data:

Now it’s not that the NYT’s readers don’t want to read business stories. The left-right positioning of the red circles shows how well each section’s stories are doing, given how much promotion they receive. On this basis, the magazine outperforms; the dining section does the worst. And the business section is right there in the middle, performing just as well as any other section. Give business stories a bit of promotion on the home page and on Twitter, in other words, and they’ll get you just as many pageviews as anything else, on average. But it turns out that the business section is systematically shortchanged by the people making those promotional decisions. 

A possible reason that the business section gets less promotion is because many of the section's stories are from the wires, which the Times does not promote nearly as much as original content. But, Salmon suggests that business stories are the most valuable in terms of how much the ad team can charge for them: 

By promoting more business stories, even if they are (horrors!) wire stories, the NYT could make more money, and everybody wants that — including the readers, who have shown that they have more interest in such things than the NYT’s editors think that they do.

If you dare, check out all of Abelson's data and pretty graphs here. 

POLITICO has learned that Al Ortiz, an executive producer for special events at CBS News, is conducting the "journalistic review" into the controversial "60 Minutes" report on Benghazi -- a fact that spokespeople at both CBS and "60 Minutes" declined to disclose. CBS Corporation is being kept abreast of the developments but has no direct involvement in the review.

That presents a problem for Ortiz, who is now tasked with conducting an investigation of his own boss, Jeff Fager. Fager is both the executive producer of "60 Minutes" and the chairman of CBS News, which means that any dirt Ortiz digs up on "60 Minutes" reporting will reflect back on the man who pays his check.

Fager is also the person who, initially, decided that no investigation would take place. Though CBS says the review has been underway since they first learned of "the issue," a spokesman told the New York Times last Sunday that Lara Logan's televised apology would be the network's last word on the matter. "[T]he CBS News chairman, Jeff Fager, who is also the executive producer of “60 Minutes,” has not ordered an investigation," the Times reported at at the time.

In conversations with network sources last week, Fager's dual role was cited as one of the factors that may have contributed to the "60 Minutes" error. The Sunday news magazine has gained more editorial freedom since Linda Mason, a senior network vice president responsible for standards, left in January of this year. Al Ortiz, who replaced Mason, was not given the same editorial control and was not consulted for the program’s package on Benghazi, sources said.

As photographers face mounting lay offs at newspapers around the world, the French newspaper Libération published its Nov. 14 issue with no photos to showcase the importance of photography to news.

Olivier Laurent at the British Journal of Photography showcases the newspaper's photo-less pages, which were published to coincide with the international photography fair, Paris Photo, opening this week.

Brigitte Ollier from Libération's Culture desk explains:

"For the first time in its history, Libération is published without photographs. In their place: a series of empty frames that create a form of silence; an uncomfortable one. It's noticeable, information is missing, as if we had become a mute newspaper. [A newspaper] without sound, without this little internal music that accompanies sight."

Libération includes a page at the end of the issue with the missing images, but with all the articles and written material removed.

See more from the British Journal of Photography here.

Sullydish targets MSNBC over what he describes as "the continued violent and homophobic bigotry" of their new Friday night talk host, Alec Baldwin:

What a bunch of hypocrites and phonies on that propaganda network. They’re almost as bad as GLAAD, which has finally – finally – criticized the bigot. But, of course, they haven’t called on MSNBC to fire him. Baldwin, for his part, actually tried to claim he said “fathead” instead of “fag”! And then – no, I’m not making it up –insisted that he had no idea that the word “cocksucker” had a gay connotation. For a litany of his deranged tweets, check this page.

This was MSNBC's fear since Baldwin got the gig in September: that the public outbursts tolerated by the entertainment industry (Hollywood, NBC's '30 Rock') and talk radio (WNYC) would come under far greater scrutiny on cable news. Then again, if the show keeps rating so poorly -- he's lost more than two-fifths of his premiere week audience, which was low to begin with -- Phil Griffin may use the controversy as an excuse to get rid of him.

Former U.S. presidential candidate Steve Forbes is exploring a sale of Forbes Media LLC, the company that has been in his family for nearly a century, according to an internal staff memo.

Forbes is seeking at least $400 million for the company, which includes Forbes Magazine and Forbes.com, according to Bloomberg News. Deutsche Bank AG is overseeing the search.

As with the rest of the industry, Forbes has suffered declines in advertising revenue: U.S. advertising sales have fallen 19 percent in the last four years to $275 million in 2012.

Bloomberg's Alex Sherman, Jeffrey McCracken & Edmund Lee have the full report.

The editorial board of The Patriot-News in Pennsylvania issued what may well be the correction of the century on Thursday -- the 19th century that is.

The newspaper issued a retraction for characterizing former President Abraham Lincoln's now famous Gettysburg Address as "silly remarks" in a Nov. 24, 1863 editorial.

"We pass over the silly remarks of the President. For the credit of the nation we are willing that the veil of oblivion shall be dropped over them and that they shall be no more repeated or thought of," the 1863 editorial of what was then The Patriot & Union newspaper said.

Clearly, a veil of oblivion was not dropped over the speech, and the words of the address are now inscribed - both literally in the Lincoln memorial in Washington and figuratively - into the nation's history. 

"Seven score and ten years ago, the forefathers of this media institution brought forth to its audience a judgment so flawed, so tainted by hubris, so lacking in the perspective history would bring, that it cannot remain unaddressed in our archives," the 2013 editorial said. The world will little note nor long remember our emendation of this institution’s record – but we must do as conscience demands."

The paper then goes on to issue a formal retraction:

"In the editorial about President Abraham Lincoln’s speech delivered Nov. 19, 1863, in Gettysburg, the Patriot & Union failed to recognize its momentous importance, timeless eloquence, and lasting significance. The Patriot-News regrets the error."

Read the full piece here. 

President Obama gets trashed in the media.

MSNBC's Alec Baldwin scored a victory today. A woman who claimed to have had a romantic relationship with Baldwin was sentenced to 210 days in jail for stalking and harassing the MSNBC host and actor, CNN reports.

The woman, a Canadian actress named Genevieve Sabourin, was also ordered not contact Baldwin or his wife for five years. She was arrested in April for after trying to visit Baldwin's New York home. During the trial, Sabourin repeatedly yelled out at Baldwin, causing her to be found in contempt of court. 

"Unlike the actor, who didn't say a word about the case to reporters, Sabourin basked in the media spotlight," CNN reports. "She grinned widely as she shared her side of the story with a group of reporters."

Baldwin's MSNBC show "Up Late" has been struggling with ratings recently, experiencing a sharp drop in viewers since its premiere October. 

Read a full report here. 

John Oliver, the British comedian best known for his work on "The Daily Show with Jon Stewart" is moving to HBO for his own series, HBO announced Thursday.

The show will launch in 2014 as a "satirical look at the week in news" every Sunday night. 

“We weren’t otherwise searching for another weekly talk show, but when we saw John Oliver handling host duties on ‘The Daily Show,’ we knew that his singular perspective and distinct voice belonged on HBO,” HBO President Michael Lombardo said in a statement. “We are extremely excited that John has agreed to make HBO his home.”

Oliver guest-hosted "The Daily Show" this summer while Stewart directed a film, and appropriately thanked Stewart in a statement.

“I’m incredibly excited to be joining HBO, especially as I presume this means I get free HBO now. I want to thank Comedy Central, and everyone at ‘The Daily Show’ for the best seven and a half years of my life," Oliver said. "But most of all, I’d like to thank Jon Stewart. He taught me everything I know. In fact, if I fail in the future, it’s entirely his fault.”