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Is Newt Gingrich coming around to the NYT? First line of his most recent column from Human Events: "I'm beginning this week by doing something I don’t usually do: thanking the New York Times."

CNN's Jack Cafferty admits a crush on First Lady Michelle Obama here, calling her "utterly fascinating."

President Obama named Julius Genachowski as his nominee for Federal Communications Commission chairman today.

Washingtonian has a timeline of the Chandra Levy news story, culminating today in the arrest of Ingmar Guandique.

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Rush Limbaugh says he's "exploding with reaction" at this phrase, "the president has spoken a lot about bringing the country together," in a question from CNN's Ed Henry at today's daily press briefing at the White House. "Ed, you're a butt boy" follows.

Rush does have some compliments to give- "Jake Tapper is the one guy that's outside of the butt boy bubble in the White House press room," he says.

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Washington Post: Obama Meets With British Prime Minister Brown

Washington Times: BREITBART: Rush to judgment: A media hopelessly divided

Washington Examiner: When will Obama 'get it' on earmarks?

N.Y. Times: Harvard Medical School in Ethics Quandary

L.A. Times: The tired war on Rush Limbaugh

USA Today: Coast Guard finds a boat, survivor off Florida

The Hill: Gibbs 'surprised' that Steele apologized to Limbaugh

Politico: Steele to Rush: I'm sorry

ABC News: Auto Sales Slump Persists as Consumers Stay Scared

CBS News: Ten Healthiest Fast Food Chains

Fox News: Coast Guard Will Call Off Search for 3 Missing Football Players by Sunset

CNN: Coast Guard to end search for boaters at sundown

Wall Street Journal: Opinion: The Obama Economy

NPR: Cancer Claims Ad Model Who Sued Big Tobacco

Roll Call: GOP Senators Want Obama to Renominate Bush Judges

CQ: Geithner Defends Proposed Tax Increases on Wealthy

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Internal memo from WaPo funnyman Gene Weingarten:

Gene Weingarten has authorized ALL NEWS distribution of the following statement:

If you are receiving this message, I am resting comfortably at George Washington University Hospital after double knee replacement surgery. If you have not received this message, I died during surgery, and the message you received instead was maudlin and -- as these things tend to be -- filled with embarrassing exaggerations of my accomplishments, as well as outright lies about the strength of my character, my importance to the newspaper, and the inspiration I have been to others.

If that happened, apologize.

By "resting comfortably" I mean "under the influence of narcotics administered in doses large enough to sedate a mature horse." This condition will last through tomorrow morning, at which point I plan to begin a strict regimen of self-pity, accompanied by cantankerousness. This will last four days. Visits during this period are discouraged. This is because my behavior will resemble that of an enraged ape. If I have it at hand, I will fling feces.

Thank you.

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Yeah, we've never heard of him either and we're not sure this is how you want to make a name for yourself, but the freshman Congressman from Colorado blamed the blogosphere for the "demise" of traditional journalism- for the better.

Rep. Jared Polis is quoted by the Denver Post, "Who killed the Rocky Mountain News? We're all part of it, for better or worse, and I argue it's mostly for the better... The media is dead and long live the new media."

(h/t Romenesko)

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Commenting on RNC Chairman Michael Steele's apology to Rush Limbaugh, White House Press Secretary Robert Gibbs had this to say at today's press briefing:

"I was a little surprised by the speed in which Mr. Steele, the head of the RNC, apologized to the head of the Republican Party."

TVNewser also points out- Gibbs knocked CNBC's Jim Cramer for calling President Obama's budget the "greatest wealth destruction by a president" on this morning's Today Show.

"I'm not entirely sure what he's pointing to to make some of the statements... And you can go back and look at any number of statements he's made in the past about the economy and wonder where some of the back-up for those are too," Gibbs responded to a question posed by NBC's Tom Costello on duty at the WH.

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USA Today launched a new video game community today - Game Hunters moderated by Mike Snider and Brett Molina.

Game Hunters will feature gaming news, reviews, contests, giveaways and other exclusives like access to game demo codes and behind-the-scenes peeks at new games about to be released.

The Game Hunters community will utilize social networking functions so participants can comment on posts, message the authors directly, message other members privately, create their own blogs, join a conversation in the community forum or create their own forum.

Check it out for yourself at gamehunters.usatoday.com.

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MediaJobsDaily reports that Jay Kennedy, VP of labor at WaPo, sent the Post's guild a letter suggesting the creation of a new role - "community journo."

"primary focus of this position will be to report on stories of local and community interest for the Extras and to perform multimedia work; employees in this position may also report for the daily paper."

In addition, the letter says:

"community journalists should not be expected to be promoted to "reporter," and the base salary would start at $653 per week, or $34,000 a year."

The Post Guild responded that the new gig "sounds a lot like the positions we already have...for a lower wage."

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Harry Jaffe over at Washingtonian magazine ranks what he calls WaPo's "new brain trust." On a scale of one to ten, he had reporters and editors rank their new leaders.

The ladies, Katharine Weymouth and Liz Spayd, take the cake in this contest, out ranking Marcus Brauchli and Raju Narisetti with scores of 8 and 9, respectively.

Katharine Weymouth: Even as she delivers the news that the Post must shave $85 million in costs, the young publisher gets high marks for being calm, steady, and forthright. Also pretty hip and approachable. Rating: 8

Marcus Brauchli: As executive editor for six months, he has yet to establish a real presence in either the print or the Web-site newsroom. Reporters call him the Ghost. At lunches with reporters, he seems "disengaged" and consumed with his BlackBerry. Rating: 6

Liz Spayd: She has lots of cred in both newsrooms. She's the only top editor who came up through the Post and appreciates the culture. As one of two managing editors, she's been in the downtown-DC newsroom, putting out the newspaper and directing coverage on Washingtonpost.com. Rating: 9

Raju Narisetti: Only a month on the job, he got off to a rough start. He worked with Brauchli at the Wall Street Journal, launched a newspaper in India, and now shares the managing-editor title with Spayd. Posties say it’s Narisetti's job to cut staff at Washingtonpost.com. After an all-hands staff meeting, he stepped into an elevator with eight of his staff members. They expected him to chat; he never looked up from his BlackBerry. Rating: 3

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Publishing giants Reed Elsevier, NYT, Thomson Reuters, News Corp's Dow Jones & Co, and Knight Ridder were granted an appeal by the U.S. Supreme Court yesterday. The case involves a nearly $18 million copyright settlement that the publishers reached with freelance journos in 2005.

The epic battle that began in 2001 started when a group of writers sued the publishers and a number of online databases, stating that their contracts did not allow for the online distribution and electronic archival of their work.

Reuter reports that arguments in the case will begin in October.

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WaPo's David Ignatius takes his column to the web in a new series of daily video discussions launched by PostGlobal. CNN's Fareed Zakaria also contributes to PostGlobal as a co-moderator.

Check out Ignatius' first post below.

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Who: Media professionals

What: Drinks + conversation

When: Thursday, March 5, 6:00 - 8:00 pm

Where: Porter's 1207 19th Street NW

Why: To bring about greater community among media professionals and to meet some of our instructors who will be teaching seminars in D.C. this spring!

With: mediabistro.com D.C. party hosts Mischa Bergeron
and Marc Pultuskier along with FBDC.

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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 or let us know in the tips box below.

Its day 43 covering the Obama administration and one month down for us. Happy Birthday to Patrick Gavin.

What we know and what we're reading this Tuesday morning...

NEWSPAPERS | TV | RADIO | ONLINE | NEWS NOTES | JOBS

NEWPAPERS

WaPo tops Fortune's most admired companies 2009 list in the publishing, newspapers and magazines industry. NYTimes follows.

More on George Will's column on global warming and omsbudsman Andrew Alexander's response on a science blog The Loom, "When Fact-Checking Is Not Fact-Checking."

Future "health czar" Nancy-Ann DeParle is married to NYT reporter Jason DeParle, the paper disclosed yesterday. Jason does not cover healthcare and Politico reports Washington bureau chief Dean Baquet does not foresee any issue, saying DeParle is "one of the most important people in the bureau."

A look at the future of newspapers, "What Comes After a Golden Age," including five reasons why the death of print is not impending.

TV

TVNewser wants to know "Where are TV's Women Chief White House Correspondents?" All the major TV nets and cablers- ABC, CBS, NBC/MSNBC, CNN, FNC -have male Chief White House Correspondents. Is this significant? Sam Donaldson thinks "it's a big deal," Ann Compton calls it "a quirk of the moment," and Andrea Mitchell finds it "unusual."

Media Matters asks, "Matthews' 'Oh God' vs. Santelli's rant: Which told us more about the press?" "...the idea that the [Chris] Matthews live-mic moment should be pounced on as an "aha" moment for the unprofessional press corps is absurd. Not when Rick Santelli, a reporter for CNBC, went on live TV and uncorked an anti-Obama rant and then paraded around on right-wing radio shows for days while concocting stories about being targeted by the White House. Despite crossing all normal bounds of journalism, Santelli was celebrated in the press as a populist... And CNBC seemed to do everything it could to market and hype the rant."

NY Magazine calls ABC's Jake Tapper a tool here.

RADIO

In today's Media Notes, Howard Kurtz contends the "White House Lets Rush Limbaugh Be Voice of GOP Opposition." He calls Limbaugh a "master at drawing media attention," filling a vacuum in the Republican party since the election.

ONLINE

A discussion on fair use from the NYT here. Copyright and infringement cases against bloggers and online publishers seem to be increasing. An interesting quote from Arianna Huffington, "we are at the beginning of developing the rules of the road" online and Times piece says she said the site’s editors were "constantly talking" about appropriate excerpting conduct.

NEWS NOTES

From Newsweek, "Confessions Of A Pundit, Economic commentators may be insightful, but they're not neutral. Market forces shape their views."

In an interview with ABC's Jonathan Karl former First Lady Laura Bush commented that she wasn't getting her newspaper on time in the morning. It's actually security that's the problem, not her hometown paper, the Dallas Morning News. The paper's publisher and chief executive tells Dallas News, "Because the police won't let anyone past the roadblock near the Bush Dallas residence without security clearance, we leave the paper with the police guards near the house bright and early every morning."

JOBS

Slate is looking for an editorial intern.

HAT TIPS: Mediabistro, Romanesko, Calderone

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What we almost missed today...

Senator Kudlow? Maybe... CNBC anchor and syndicated columnist Larry Kudlow is considering a run for Senate against Sen. Chris Dodd (D-CT), telling Politico, "I'm thinking about it, that's all I can say... it's the kind of thing where I'm talking to friends, talking to strategists, talking to my wife, and praying on it... It's all come on very fast, and I don't have any definite thoughts at all other than the fact that I am thinking about it." You remember similar speculation about MSNBC's Chris Matthews and most recently, Joe Scarborough.

Rod Blagojevich may not have a job, but who needs one with a six-figure book deal lined up, right? The terms of the book deal with Beverly Hills-based Phoenix Books, one of the largest independent book publishers in the U.S., have not been disclosed in a release, but we do know that the book has a working title of "The Governor" and is set to be released in October. He will supposedly write about the discussions, the considerations, and the factors involved in picking President Barack Obama's successor to the U.S. Senate. The Sun-Times reports Blagojevich may not see a dime of it under a law now being considered.

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Washington Post: Dow Falls Below 6,800 for First Time Since 1997

Washington Times: BREITBART: Rush to judgment: A media hopelessly divided

Washington Examiner: Heard the news? Reporters think the time for panic is now

N.Y. Times: Good or Useless, Medical Scans Cost the Same

L.A. Times: A side of Cancun not seen during spring break

USA Today: Coast Guard finds a boat, survivor off Florida

The Hill: Onetime congressman has Specter in his sights

Politico: Pelosi's list: Who's on her bad side?

ABC News: Wall Street Tumbles Anew as Financials Slide

CBS News: The Man Who Figured Out Madoff's Scheme

Fox News: Overturned Boat, 1 Survivor Found in Search for NFL Players

CNN: Boater found; NFL players still missing, Coast Guard says

Wall Street Journal: Dow Falls Below 6800 Amid Broad Retreat

NPR: American Student's Murder Trial Under Way In Italy

Roll Call: Reid Reopens Senate Debate

CQ: CQ Transcript: House Republicans Hold a News Teleconference on Guantanamo Prisoners

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What we almost missed today...

Editor & Publisher has its annual Pulitzer preview up- "Two Washington Post series in the running include Debbie Cenziper and Sara Cohen's "Forced Out" investigation that revealed how local landlords drove tenants from rent-controlled apartments. It is a Goldsmith finalist. There is also the paper's 12-part series on Chandra Levy, which many believe prompted the recent attention on a suspect named in the report. If he is charged, look for the jurors to take note."

Who leaves the oldest show in television for the newest? Michelle Jaconi, who tells friends in an email today "CNN wooed me with an offer I couldn't refuse-- including creative control of a show that is going to change my favorite political institution, the Sunday morning public affairs program." Her email after the jump...

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Tomorrow at 1pm at Politics & Prose Aram Roston discusses his profile of Ahmed Chalabi, "The Man Who Pushed America to War."

Then on Monday, a moment we've all been waiting for... the Sunday Show Showdown, I mean Summit. We see them around the same time every weekend, but never on the same stage. They come together for the CSIS Schieffer Series at 5pm Monday at CSIS. The panel will be moderated by CBS' Bob Schieffer and will include NBC's David Gregory, ABC's George Stephanopoulos and Fox's Chris Wallace.

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Keith Olbermann and Michael Calderone are now boys...

After naming him "worse" of Countdown's "Worst Persons in the World," Calderone has redeemed himself with Olbermann, making his "Best Persons in the World" top three last night. For the count, that's two bronze medals in Calderone's collection.

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CBS' Kimberly Dozier was Carol Joynt's latest guest for "The Q&A Cafe" at Nathans in Georgetown. The show airs tonight at 8pm on DC Cable-TV 16. They discussed her book "Breathing the Fire" and her near-death experience covering the war in Iraq.

We chatted with Kimberly- "After making you comfortable on a barstool at Nathans, Carol asks VERY direct, take-no-prisoners questions, like why isn't there more news coverage of Iraq and Afghanistan, and how big is the network bureau presence in Iraq and Afghanistan." She was also quite taken by the dessert- Georgetown cupcakes.

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NBC's Meet the Press: Secretary of Defense Robert Gates and a roundtable with former Rep. Harold Ford, Jr. (D-TN), GOP strategist Mike Murphy, Vanity Fair's Dee Dee Myers and MSNBC's Joe Scarborough

ABC's This Week: OMB Director Peter Orszag, Rep. Eric Cantor (R-VA) and a roundtable with Democratic pollster Stanley Greenberg, Karl Rove, The Nation's Katrina vanden Heuvel and ABC's George Will

CBS' Face the Nation: White House Chief of Staff Rahm Emanuel

Fox News Sunday: Joint Chiefs of Staff Chairman Admiral Mike Mullen, Sen. Jon Kyl (R-AZ) and Rep. Paul Ryan (R-WI)

CNN's State of the Union: Joint Chiefs of Staff Chairman Admiral Mike Mullen, CNBC's Suze Orman and Rep. Neil Abercrombie (D-HI)

CNN's Reliable Sources with Howard Kurtz: GWU professor of media and public affairs Steve Roberts, CNN's Stephen Hayes and Barbara Starr, political analyst and author Keli Goff and former NY Post gossip columnist Liz Smith

Bloomberg's Political Capital with Al Hunt: Sen. John McCain (R-AZ), Bloomberg's Lizzie O'Leary, Julianna Goldman, Ellen Pinchuk, Kate O'Beirne and Margaret Carlson

Washington Week with Gwen Ifill and National Journal: WaPo's Dan Balz, NYT's Peter Baker and ABC's Martha Raddatz

Roll Call TV with Robert Traynham: former House Republican Leader Tom DeLay and Roll Call's Erin Billings, Lauren Whittington and Emily Pierce

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