“We’re not in the habit of writing movie reviews,” begins the lede of this Washington Post editorial, which then proceeds to skewer “Fair Game,” the controversial film about former CIA Agent Valerie Plame — which the editorial dismisses as “Hollywood myth-making.” The Post uses several examples of its own reporting during the course of the Iraq war to dismantle some of the claims made by the film.

Today on Fox News Sunday, former House Speaker Newt Gingrich hinted that he may be thinking about a presidential run for 2012. Gingrich told Chris Wallace that he is currently “much more inclined to run” than to not run, and that he would make a decision by “end of February or beginning of March.”

This morning on Meet the Press, Senate Republican Leader Mitch McConnell called Julian Assange a “high tech terrorist” for his role in publicly releasing over 250,000 US diplomatic cables.

In his column today, the New York Times‘ Public Editor Arthur Brisbane discusses the NYT’s role in the past week as a major news media player in the unfolding WikiLeaks cables story. He starts by admitting he was shocked to first read about the cables in the Times, and worried about their effect on the country. But by the end of the column he does an about-face and ardently defends the Times’ decision to publish the cables.

This morning, Bill Maher spoke to Fareed Zakaria on his show, Fareed Zakaria GPS, about whether President Obama is making America look more like Europe — and Maher argued that being more like Europe would actually be a good thing for America.

The Associated Press is reporting today that Representative Charlie Rangel, who the House Ethics Committee recently decided to censure for his ethics violations, will argue that he does not deserve censure and ask the House to reconsider his punishment.

This week in viral videos: an actual street fight breaks out between two crows and two cats, and an enterprising YouTube user added aWest Side Story-style street fight soundtrack. It’s worth sparing a few minutes to watch this one… words really can’t describe what you’re in for.

On CNN’s State of the Union this morning, host Candy Crowley asked Senator John McCain what he thought of Sarah Palin‘s recent firestorm of media attention — her new book, new reality show, and all the other publicity she has been receiving recently. When Crowley asked if McCain felt Palin might be divisive, he responded: “A guy named Ronald Reagan used to be viewed as divisive.”

The New York Times and the Guardian have published the first reports of the US Embassy cables, obtained from WikiLeaks, this afternoon. The Times was first to go live just after 1 pm EST, with the Guardian following shortly afterwards. The reports contain information from over 250,000 confidential American diplomatic cables obtained by WikiLeaks and distributed to the Times, the Guardian, and Germany’s Der Spiegel.

Gawker is reporting that Twitter users have obtained and spread details of WikiLeaks’ latest leak online before its scheduled release later today — and the details are at times juicy, but contain “no earth-shattering revelations.”

While discussing the START Treaty on Fox News Sunday this morning, Senator Claire McCaskill issued a challenge to Republicans in the Senate who are holding up the treaty: stop “hiding behind the skirts” of Senator John Kyl.

On Meet The Press today, Senators John Kyl and Dick Durbin discussed the START treaty and its slow progress in the Senate. Durbin went so far as to say that people who pay for cable news should ask for refunds when they watch C-SPAN and see nothing happening.

In advance of the major WikiLeaks dump anticipated to come out later today, Senators Claire McCaskill and Lindsey Graham took to Fox News Sunday to discuss the effects of the latest WikiLeaks dump. Both Senators agreed that those who are behind the leaks should be prosecuted.

Among the books President Obama has written, seemingly the least politically charged of all of them is his recently released children’s book, “Of Thee I Sing: A Letter to My Daughters.” It’s a picture book which features images and stories of many prominent historical figures, such as Helen Keller, Cesar Chavez, Georgia O’Keefe, and Sitting Bull. However, proving that even children’s books can be controversial, media outlets have taken issue with the historical figures he appears to endorse in the book.

On CNN’s Reliable Sources, Howard Kurtz brought in a panel of media experts to talk about the frenzy of Palin media coverage this past week: her new book America by Heart, the New York Times Magazine profile of her, her new reality show, and her family’s online dramas. Amongst all the buzz about Palin this week, the panel cut right to the heart of the matter when they said: Sarah Palin has to decide whether she wants to be a pop culture figure, or a political figure.

Perhaps one of the most discussed topics on today’s talk show circuit was the TSA’s newly tightened security measures and the uproar created by them. A Fox News Sunday panel consisting of Juan Williams, Bill Kristol, Kevin Madden, and A.B. Stoddard. Kristol expressed skepticism about the outrage, saying that some of the uproar might be “ginned up” by a few media outlets and may be an overreaction.

Frank Rich tackles a hot topic in his column in the New York Times this Sunday: Sarah Palin‘s possible presidential run. And he contends that America should get ready — because Palin has what it takes to win, and her opponents in the Republican Party are afraid to stand up against her.

This morning on Meet the Press, Governor Bobby Jindal, whose name has been tossed around as a contender for the Republican ticket for president in 2012, told host David Gregory that he does not intend to run for president. He did, however, appear to leave the door open for a vice presidential run.

Mediaite’s Dan Abrams appeared on the TODAY Show this morning to talk about the trial of college student Amanda Knox, which starts up again this week. Knox was convicted for the murder of her British roommate, Meredith Kercher, while abroad in Italy. This week, Knox and her legal team will be appealing against that conviction. Abrams, as NBC’s Chief Legal analyst, offered perspective on what to expect from the trial.

In Sunday’s New York Times, the Opinion section features an op-ed from Vice President Joe Biden, talking about the progress America has made in Iraq — but also the work America still has to finish there as well to make Iraq a viable, self-sustaining nation.

Secretary of State Hillary Clinton made the Sunday talk show rounds this morning, appearing on Fox News Sunday, CBS’s Face the Nation, and NBC’s Meet the Press. The topic of conversation: TSA’s new measures and national security — and Clinton admitted that she felt TSA measures should be less invasive and that she personally would not want to submit to one of TSA’s patdowns.

Yahoo is making major moves to ramp up itsoriginal content: this morning, Yahoo launched three new blogs to spin off of  The Upshot. It’s a big move for the Upshot, which is only seven months old and helmed by Andrew Golis, formerly the deputy publisher of Talking Points Memo. The three new blogs include The Cutline, [...]

Talking Points Memo celebrates its tenth anniversary this week with some news hinting at its future and its position in the online news ecosystem. The pioneering left-wing political blog, launched by Josh Marshall on November 13, 2000, has grown tremendously over the last ten years — expanding from one man to dozens of staffers, winning awards for its coverage, and establishing itself as one of the most innovative online news organizations.

At the recent Nevada Cancer Institute gala, CNN anchor Larry King, who leaves his long-running show in December, waxed nostalgic about newspaper and the old way of consuming news — and said that he doesn’t care much for Twitter, Facebook, or other social media. The Las Vegas Sun reports.

Poking fun at the media last night, Saturday Night Live turned their spotlight on entertainment news shows in a sketch bringing back their entertainment news show parody, Hollywood Dish — with Scarlett Johansson as their guest.