Vivian Schiller is the president and CEO of National Public Radio, which she joined at the end of 2008 after seven years with The New York Times Co., where she served most recently as SVP and General Manager of NYTimes.com. During her tenure at the Times, she oversaw a complete overhaul of the paper’s website and dismantled TimesSelect, an early attempt at charging for content online. Schiller’s leadership at NPR has also meant a redesigned website. Earlier this week, Schiller came to New York to participate in a debate with Journalism Online founder Steve Brill — “The Great Digital Debate: Free vs. Paid Content Online.” Now she answers our 5QQ — Five Quick Questions.

A “Talk of the Town” item in this week’s New Yorker uses the extortion case involving Dave Letterman and CBS producer Robert Halderman — which keeps getting weirder and weirder, and doesn’t look like it’s going away any time soon — as a jumping-off point for a closer look at blackmail.

When we hear talk about the mainstream media spending more time fact-checking, we don’t usually think of baseball. But that’s exactly what it meant for Keith Olbermann, who chimed in about a front-page New York Times article from Friday’s paper about a newly surfaced piece of home video showing Babe Ruth at bat and striking out while Lou Gehrig waits on deck at Yankees Stadium.

Anita Dunn went on CNN with Howard Kurtz this morning to talk about her specific gripes with mainstream media practices, spending most of her time criticizing Fox News. The deputy White House communications director really cut to the chase when it came time to talk about Fox News. “What I think is fair to say about Fox,” she told Kurtz, “is that it really is more of a wing of the Republican party.” Video inside …

Judge Jeanine Pirro, Rev. Al Sharpton and Ann Coulter joined Geraldo Rivera on Geraldo at Large last night to talk about the standing allegations against New York Rep. Charlie Rangel. Everyone was taken aback to hear Ann Coulter defend Rangel — you can even hear a few whoas in the background. But then again Coulter’s main defense was that Rangel’s alleged ethics violations are ‘only a little bit worse than what Tom Delay was accused of.’

The White House might be annoyed with the way that Roger Ailes‘ Fox News has been covering the current administration, and a little upset that other mainstream outlets have not been especially diligent when fact-checking Fox. But there’s one thing that Anita Dunn, field marshall of the White House’s Call ‘Em Out Patrol, doesn’t mind about Fox: Golden boy Major Garrett.

It was never about money for Robert Halderman. It was about revenge and jealousy. It was about David Letterman hugging his girlfriend. This morning, Howard Kurtz writes in the Washington Post that Halderman, the man who attempted to squeeze Dave Letterman for some $2 million, was motivated to blackmail the late night host after he saw him ‘passionately embrace’ his girlfriend.

Now would be a good time for the folks at Condé Nast to make a brave and convincing foray into the online world, right? And so they have — well, it’s brave at least — with the launch of a new dating site trulymadlydating.com. The idea is to get Glamour readers into a dating pool with GQ readers, and make money setting them up in stylish relationships. Since something is terribly wrong with Condé’s core business, it seems the publishing house is ready to try anything.

Earlier this summer, the New York Times Magazine got smaller — a little off the top, a little off the side. Well, this weekend the magazine showed that a slim summer doesn’t necessarily preclude a beefed-up fall and winter. The NYT Magazine added a little something to the middle — an 80-page special advertising supplement. The rest of the magazine is 66 pages, including the other ad pages.

Michael David Barrett, 48, has been arrested for interstate stalking after he filmed eight videos of EPSN reporter Erin Andrews changing in two different hotel rooms and posted them on the internet. Barrett attempted to sell the videos to TMZ.com. But instead of snatching the videos (and an avalanche of traffic) the site gave Barrett’s personal information to the right people.

“In a normal country, losing a bid to host the Olympics is seen as a bad thing,” Rachel Maddow began her segment last night lambasting American conservatives for celebrating Chicago’s failed attempt to host the 2016 Olympics. She criticized conservatives specifically for framing the failed bid as a strike against President Obama and for just turning the bid into a partisan issue, period.

Yesterday Eater, Lockhart Steele‘s Curbed Media food blog, expanded its reach with the launch of a national site, Eater National. And, in order to make coast-to-coast domination a little easier, the site is paying anybody with a food blog $25 to hang it up and post an Eater ad as their final piece of content.

This morning the Associated Press joined Talking Points Memo and Gawker as practitioners of the ‘open notebook’ method of reporting — well, inadvertently. One reporter’s notes about the developing news of Roman Polanski‘s arrest were sent out on the wire instead of the text of his article and published online by the New York Times and Forbes.

When The Wire‘s Julito McCullum appeared on Tyra Bank‘s afternoon talk show for a segment about President Obama’s effect on the academic goals of young black men, he was asked by a producer to act like he had no interest in going to college.

The weekend edition of Fox & Friends starts at 6 a.m., which means that Alisyn Camerota sets her alarm for 3 a.m. in order to be ready in time. Oh, and then she spends the whole day running around New York with her kids.

Man, it takes a big set of stones to be President of the United States. But those stones are nothing compared to the stones you need to fight terror in the farthest reaches of the globe. Bill O’Reilly: “Do you believe that President Obama — if all else fails — has the stones to either launch military action against iran or let israel do it?” Video inside …

A new video of New Jersey schoolchildren learning a song in praise of Barack Obama for Black History Month to the tune of “Jesus Loves the Little Children” is arousing some of the same anger as Obama’s first day of school speech earlier this summer. The video, which is over six months old, hadn’t received any attention until Matt Drudge and Fox picked it up. Meanwhile, B. Bernice Young Elementary School had to go on lockdown because of threats on the principal’s life.

Americans for Limited Government and NBC News have found themselves in a little he said–she said over an email from Dateline producer Jane Stone in response to some ALG media outreach. Do accusations that Stone wrote a message reading ‘Bite me Jew Boy’ from her Blackberry hold water? Or is ALG just desperate for buzz?

After juxtaposing clips of Friday’s Day of Islamic Unity — a peaceful prayer demonstration by American Muslims in front of the Capitol — with images of various terror suspects in handcuffs across the country, Bill O’Reilly lashed into his guest Edina Lekovic saying that peaceful demonstrations weren’t enough to clear the name of American Muslims. “You’re not proactive enough in condemning worldwide Jihad! … You have to step up your PR activities.” Video inside …

Larry King welcomed Iranian PresidentMahmoud Ahmadinejad on his show last night to look back at his week at the United Nations, but King couldn’t resist the chance to question Ahmadinejad about his Holocaust Denial. “What my understanding of the Holocaust is is the need to raise a number of questions,” Ahmadinejad told King at the beginning of the questions. “And I actually have raised those questions but unfortunately my words have been distorted by the media … they call it information, the ‘free flow of information.’”

David Segal draws similarities, in this weekend’s Week in Review, between rappers and talk-radio hosts. He notices that members of the two groups all have larger-than-life egos, thrive off negative press and detractors, love starting rivalries and rely on verbal dexterity to earn their keep. Oh yeah, and they love guns and money.

Video shot at last weekend’s 9/12 Project protests has surfaced showing Heidi Noonan, an associate producer for Fox News, encouraging the crowd to hoot and holler behind Griff Jenkins while he talks live from the scene with Glenn Beck in the studio. Fox is calling this a rookie mistake by an inexperienced producer. But is it also an ethics violation?

Ann Curry revealed via her Twitter feed earlier today that her return flight from Iran was forced to make an emergency landing today because of an oil leak. Curry was returning from Iran where she interviewed President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad in Tehran (video inside). While her interview with the Iran leader had some dramatic moments, things got much dicier on Curry’s flight home.

After a five-month tryout anchoring CNBC’s 8 p.m. hour, former Wall Street Journal and Forbes editor Dennis Kneale has been cancelled. He broke the news himself on Twitter — taking one last (desperate) shot at bloggers, the same “mean-spirited” miscreants who he lashed out at earlier this summer, deriding them as “digital dickweed,” in what his producer called a moment of ‘poetry, the best thing he’d done for the show.’

Journalists and mediaites might have been a little bitter that they missed out on federal stimulus. But thank god for Megan Fox. Who needs news when we have Megan? Her new movie, “Jennifer’s Body,” premiered this weekend, and everyone with a pen is itching to write about the film’s star. Or, at least, write about writing about the film’s star.