On Monday morning’s Fox And Friends, co-host Steve Doocy cited a recent study from the Center for Media and Public Affairs at George Mason University that showed Mitt Romney receiving overwhelmingly negative coverage from the three broadcast networks and Fox News. One interesting result that was buried in that study: while Romney received 78% negative coverage from the broadcast networks, Rep. Ron Paul got a whopping 89% positive coverage from CBS News.

First Lady Michelle Obama spoke with CBS This Morning host Gayle King to address some image issues she’s had to deal with during her husband’s time in the White House… and his possible role in that.

Pulitzer Prize-winning fact-checking website Politifact.com revealed its 2011 “Lie Of The Year” today, which is the essentially true claim that Republicans voted to end Medicare. While Politifact is taking heavy fire from liberals over its ridiculous decision, the site’s editor Bill Adair took to the airwaves to explain the award, and told a whopper of a lie himself on CBS News’ The Early Show Tuesday morning, while also demonstrating the central fallacy of the award, all in the same sentence.

Vladimir Putin‘s potential return to the Russian presidency is being met with more than a little resistance by many in the nation. The AP reports that Saturday saw protests of thousands in Moscow against United Russia, Putin’s party, and at least fifteen other cities, with protesters chanting in some cities “Putin is a louse” and alleging voter fraud in an election where the former president’s party won about 50% of the vote.

Saturday night’s GOP debate hosted by CBS News and National Journal focused on foreign policy and, ostensibly, U.S. diplomatic efforts around the world. But diplomacy was in short supply during a post-debate dust-up between CBS News’ political director John Dickerson and the Michele Bachmann campaign, after he unintentionally CCed one of Bachmann’s staffers on an e-mail dismissing the GOP candidate. Bachmann’s campaign predictably used his email to allege liberal bias, to which Stephen Colbert agreed, saying “CBS is clearly biased for asking more questions of the left wing candidates like Herman Cain, Rick Perry, Mitt Romney and Newt Gingrich.”

Over the weekend, Michele Bachmann‘s campaign has been going after CBS News over an e-mail accidentally sent to her spokeswoman saying that Bachmann would not be asked as many questions as the other candidates. The congresswoman accused CBS of media bias, but on Reliable Sources today, Howard Kurtz stood up for the network.

Republican presidential candidate Michele Bachmann is crying foul after CBS’ foreign policy debate yesterday, accusing the network of media bias because of an e-mail that indicated she would not be getting as many questions as the other candidates.

60 Minutes legend Andy Rooney is in stable condition after suffering serious complications from surgery. CBS News reports he’s currently resting in a hospital bed. His family has requested privacy throughout his ordeal and released no further medicial information.

Walter Issacson‘s latest biography might be the most historically significant, at least for the very moment in which we now find ourselves. Over the last year or so, Apple founder Steve Jobs granted 40 interviews recorded for a biography, the publish date of which has been moved up since the Jobs died this month as a result of pancreatic cancer. 60 Minutes sat down with Issacson for a two-part feature on Jobs, both of which you can view below, courtesy of CBS News:

Secretary of State Hillary Clinton was in the midst of a series of news interviews yesterday when news broke that Muammar Gaddafi had been captured. So press pool cameras were rolling at the very moment that Clinton learned of unconfirmed reports of Gaddafi’s capture, which elicited a stately “wow!” Shortly there after, the same cameras captured the moment she learned that Gaddafi was dead, which had the Secretary of State joyously proclaiming “we came, we saw, he died!”

The dust-up between CBS News reporter Sharyl Attkisson, and spokespeople from the White House and the Justice Department over her reporting on Fast and Furious, has become a cause celebre for the right, and a meta-story all its own. Jay Carney responded obliquely to the incident at yesterday’s briefing by pointing out that “tough conversations” are all in a day’s work. Mark Hemingway, of Bill Kristol‘s Weekly Standard, adds another layer to the onion by asking if CBS News is “Silencing Fast and Furious Reporter” Sharyl Attkisson.

Judging by the reaction on Twitter last night, one of the more interesting moments of last night’s GOP debate came when moderator Brian Williams asked Governor Rick Perry about the death penalty in his state of Texas. Williams note Perry that his state “has executed 234 death row inmates, more than any other governor in modern times,” which drew sudden applause from the audience attending the GOP debate held at the Reagan library last night.

Back in the day, Michael Rosenblum toiled as a producer at CBS News, before leaving the network and making a name for himself as a pioneer in transforming news operations. He helped launch Current TV and New York’s local NY1, and has trained journalists to shoot their own video at The New York Times, the BBC, and networks in Germany, Holland and elsewhere. But he wonders why the recently-revamped CBS Evening News still looks so, you know, unchanged. Comparing the newscast now anchored by Scott Pelley, which included a freshened up set and the return of a world map made famous as part of the set used by CBS legend Walter Cronkite, Rosenblum argues on his blog today that Pelley’s newscast looks nearly identical to the newscast put on by NBC’s John Cameron Swayze–in 1949. “Does it look pretty much the same after 62 years? Isn’t this astonishing? Isn’t this astonishing for a medium that supposedly is on the cutting edge of technology?”

Americans aren’t happy with anybody in Washington, from President Obama to Congress, but Republicans have the highest disapproval, hitting 71 percent, according to a CBS News poll released today. As CBSNews.com’s Tucker Reals writes, “Americans are unimpressed with their political leaders’ handling of the debt ceiling crisis, with a new CBS News poll showing a majority disapprove of all the involved parties’ conduct, but Republicans in Congress fare the worst, with just 21 percent backing their intransigent resistance to raising taxes.”

CBS News correspondent Erin Moriarty‘s halfway through a long day. Up early for an appearance on CBS’ Early Show, she may not wrap her day until well after tonight’s 48 Hours Mystery, which airs at 10 p.m. ET. Sure, the show’s on tape, but Moriarty isn’t, and she’ll be watching–and chatting–right along with viewers. “48 Hours is pretty idea for social networking,” Moriarty told Mediaite. “I like the connection with viewers.” And tonight, via Facebook, she’ll lead a live discussion of the show along with family members of victims of the Long Island serial killer who’s the subject of tonight’s report. The goal is two-fold: not only to create a deeper connection between the show and its viewers, but also, perhaps, to harness the audience in the hopes of finding a clue that will lead to the killer who investigators fear will strike again. “A serial killer, by nature, they continue killing. And that’s the concern. That’s why there’s pressure on the police department to solve this case,” said Suffolk County (New York) Police commissioner Richard Dormer.

In an exclusive interview set to air tonight on the CBS Evening News, President Obama tells Scott Pelley he “cannot guarantee” that $20 billion worth of Social Security checks will be sent out on August 3–the day after the government could be in default. “This is not a matter of Social Security checks, these are veterans’ checks, these are folks on disability–their checks. There are about 70 million checks that go out every month.” Except maybe not next month, Mr. Obama said.

Harry Smith, who was replaced in January as co-host of CBS’ Early Show in the struggling morning show’s most recent makeover, will leave the network and join NBC News, where he will be a part of the upcoming primetime news hour hosted by NBC Nightly News anchor Brian Williams, set to debut this fall.

Journalist and Fox News commentator Bernie Goldberg spoke with Bill O’Reilly Monday evening about Norah O’Donnell‘s appointment as the White House correspondent for CBS News. The conversation focused specifically, of course, on how O’Donnell’s liberalism would play into her new position, with O’Reilly opining that O’Donnell frequently engages in snarky “digs” at the right.

In a major move, MSNBC’s chief Washington correspondent, Norah O’Donnell has decided to jump networks, signing with CBS News as White House correspondent. As Politico’s Mike Allen writes, “it’s a stunning shakeup for both the front row of the White House briefing room and for Washington’s intensely competitive network news bureaus.”

CBS News wants you to know that reporters at The New York Times, Mediaite, The Huffington Post and Entertainment Weekly all got it wrong in comparing Scott Pelley‘s first week as anchor of The CBS Evening News to the final weeks of Katie Couric‘s time in the chair. As we put it yesterday, “it’s too early to fairly judge the CBS Evening News‘ transition from Katie Couric to Scott Pelley in terms of ratings, but in his first week on the job, Pelley largely held on to the viewers Couric had, but seems to have lost some of the viewers who tuned in for the post-Couric newscasts with interim anchor Harry Smith.”

It’s too early to fairly judge the CBS Evening News transition from Katie Couric to Scott Pelley in terms of ratings, but in his first week on the job, Pelley largely held on to the viewers Couric had, but seems to have lost some of the viewers who tuned in for the post-Couric newscasts with interim anchor Harry Smith.

The amazing story of Rep. Gabrielle Giffords‘ recovery from the shooting in Tucson has progressed to the point where Giffords is “struggling to talk,” according to an interview published in the Arizona Republic. Giffords, who celebrated her 41st birthday yesterday, is making “amazing progress” said C.J. Karamargin, Giffords’ spokesman. But another staffer, Pia Carusone, the Congresswoman’s chief of staff, described the recovery–especially Giffords’ efforts to speak–have been frustrating and difficult, with Giffords unable to form complete sentences.

In an interview Wednesday with CBS News, Republican presidential candidate Herman Cain described homosexuality as “a sin” and “a choice.” Appearing on the CBS News web program Washington Unplugged, Cain told CBSNews.com senior political reporter Brian Montopoli “I believe homosexuality is a sin because I’m a Bible-believing Christian, I believe it’s a sin,” he said. “But I know that some people make that choice. That’s their choice.”

You remember Ted Haggard. He’s the former leader of the New Life Church who was forced from the pulpit amid charges he used drugs and paid a masseuse for gay sex. Haggard’s hardly running from the limelight, however, telling GQ earlier this year he’s bisexual and now, doing a cameo in a preview for a yet-to-be-filmed “Christian sex comedy” called “The Waiting Game.” Yes, really.

As first reported by Mediaite, Morning Joe executive producer Chris Licht has agreed to leave MSNBC for CBS News, where he will become vice president of programming for the news division, according to The New York Times.

According to the Times‘ Brian Stelter, the hiring of Licht is intended to be a boost to a news division that trails its competition: