Ever find that sometimes when you’re talking with friends or co-workers that a certain word keeps getting repeated over and over again? Maybe it’s a flashy one or just a really useful one, but it just keeps making the rounds in e-mails or chit-chat? Well, you’re not alone – the media also loves to reuse and recycle (not so much reduce). Welcome to Mediaite’s Meme Watch.

Some things are better in small doses. The Sonia Sotomayor hearings as viewed from PBS are long and tedious, and mostly unable to hold our attention. The #Soto hearings as viewed from our Twitter feed, however, are sharp, funny, edifying, and engaging! For instance: Why does she have two glasses of liquid? Is Al Franken about to do standup? Is Soto going to shoot Coburn? Discover all this and more in our round-up…

The Daily Show‘s take on the Sotomayor hearings thus far: “Normally in normal situations the President nominates a legal scholar…making confirmation hearings a bit of a snoozefest. But this year Barack Obama went a different way!”

As media-obsessed interns, we constantly wonder what the rest of New York is thinking about the media. So we were curious: how much do people know about this week’s Sotomayor confirmation hearings? In pursuit of taking the media pulse of our fellow city-goers, we hit the streets to ask people some questions. The results were… Umm… Interesting.

Lights! Camera! SCOTUS! All eyes this week are turned toward the confirmation hearing of Justice Sonia Sotomayor.

Mediaite asked some of our favorite legal eagles to share their thoughts on the Sotomayor hearings: The New Yorker/CNN’s Jeffrey Toobin, Slate’s Dahlia Lithwick, CBS’s Andrew Cohen and SCOTUSblog’s Tom Goldstein weigh in on today’s events.