• Television news is obsessed with aging. Or, it could just be a projection of Alessandra Stanely???s inner fears. [NYT]
• First a street, now an institute. Peter Jennings can’t even rest when in peace. [ABC]
• The FCC cracks down on Nicole Richie‘s fave four-lettered word, in order to get her to start liking the f word. You know, “food?” [Newsday]
• The only guy at the Chicago Tribune with a blog calls his co-workers a bunch of idiots. Really, what the shit is a bloggie anyway? [ChiTri]
• When it rains it pours. We’ll take all the Wenner gossip we can get, even if for some reason it doesn’t involve Steve DeLuca. [Gawker]
Earlier this morning we turned your attention to Alessandra Stanley‘s overbaked (and yet, somehow, still undercooked) assessment of how the MTA strike was the best possible news story for local stations: all the helicopters and breaking into regularly scheduled programming that 9/11 called for, but without that obnoxious side effect of death and destruction. What we did not point out, however, is that neither Alessandra nor her New York Times editors know how to use Google.
And when WABC’s local “Eyewitness News” pre-empted “Good Morning America” for a second day of live coverage, the morning anchors Steve Bertelstein and Lori Stokes looked as if they were blissed out on hash brownies.
Actually, the M4M colleague stalker of a WABC morning anchor is named Steve Bartelstein. Tomato, potato, right?
Media Ode to the City That Walks [Alessandra Stanley, NYT]
Earlier: Katie Couric’s cackles rain down on our frozen faces