In a blistering speech at the World Newspaper Conference, Hinton echoed his boss Rupert Murdoch‘s suspicions about the Internet. Along with the pugnacious quote above (though who actually says “the news is viral?”), he compared old media entering the web to “an over-eager middle-aged dad,” criticized aggregators and “thieves” for the newspaper industry’s nosedive, and called out Jeff Jarvis as a moony-eyed leader of “the information-must-be-free imperative:”

Some media outlets see the news that socialites Michaele and Tareq Salahi were able to get past state dinner security and even snap photos with President Obama as an alarming sign of poor security, some find fault with the Obama administration itself, and some think that the whole affair is funny. A poll: where do you come out?

What does Tina Brown think of Sarah Palin? While besides knocking a “total ignorance,” she describes the “present, raw, visceral quality,” that helps Palin connect to her supporters.

And also helps her separate from Pres. Obama, who is starting to feel “rarefied” and “unpassionate,” according to Brown.

New York Times columnist Frank Rich gives Going Rogue a go, deriding Palin’s ego and star obsession, but giving her credit for what she is: the only person in American politics that can come close to the star power of Barack Obama. Quotable indeed — and there’s more!

“Child abuse in politics? It is a right wing requirement. Lonesome Rhodes: ‘when we do it it’s cool, when you do it, you’re Hitler.’” Keith Olbermann shockingly declares Glenn Beck (a.k.a. ‘Lonesome Rhodes‘) his “Worst Person in the World” and, well, declares right-wing media figures and politicians to be child abusers. Video after the jump:

In a lengthy, wide-ranging piece in Broadcasting & Cable about the Sunday show ratings battle, NBC News President Steve Capus weighs in on the Chris Wallace White House snub in September.

And it sounds like something of a defense of Fox.

The former president met with Democratic lawmakers today to stress the importance of passing health care reform. Angering opponents, he said, was proof that things were working. “The point I want to make is: Just pass the bill, even if it’s not exactly what you want,” Clinton reportedly said. “When you try and fail, the other guys write history.”

Dana Perino was on Fox & Friends this morning, and she weighed in on an argumentative exchange between both national party Chairman’s on ABC’s This Week.

Perino said that both sides of the “testosterone overload” were turning off independents and women.

“One of the main themes in Jane’s book, for those of you who have read it know, is Jane’s plea, if you will, for living a simpler life. Now I don’t know about you all, but to me if you host a national syndicated successful daily television show, write a bestselling book and you’re one of the most sought-after and active speakers in the entire CNN/HLN universe, that doesn’t sound very simple.”

CNN founder Ted Turner has plenty of problems with the way cable news is trending, but he just does not understand the fascination with these laborious, wasteful newspapers, according to his appearance on Bloomberg TV as reported by the Hollywood Reporter.

“The truth, in administering justice, is emergent; cobbled together from the collective puzzle pieces in twelve minds, driven by emotion, confirmed by fact.” — Philip Bump Astor trial juror (and Mediaite columnist) on life inside the jury room (and what the press got wrong).

“When I see Les Moonves’ name in print, I’ll often read the first word as the French ‘les’ and then wonder “what the hell is a ‘moonve’”?” — Slate movie critic Dana Stevens on Twitter, causing me to almost spit up my morning Diet Coke. I feel the same way about Hervé Weinstein.

Advertising mogul and art collector Charles Saatchi remembers his moment of sticking it to the man at a Hamptons dinner party: “As the visitor from Britain, I was asked to express my views on the US press, which amounted to an unrestrained mad-dog attack on The New York Times …”

“We’re talking to ourselves. It’s like we have built this conservative ghetto — like the Warsaw Ghetto — where we have put ourselves ideologically in a box, and we shout and scream and yell at each other, but we need to get out and we need to start talking to the center of America where elections are won .”

— Joe Scarborough on MSNBC’s Morning Joe, in discussion with Sam Tanenhaus about his latest book, The Death of Conservatism, on the echo chamber of current Conservative thought.

“Niall Ferguson has many things: a position teaching at Harvard, a column in the Financial Times — and a child’s understanding of race.”

— Touré on MSNBC, in response to Niall Ferguson’s FT column where he likened Barack Obama to Felix the Cat because they were both “black and lucky.”

Willie Geist had Maureen Dowd call in to his new show Way Too Early With Willie Geist as his “Wake Up Call” to discuss her column in today’s New York Times comparing Sarah Palin to — who else? — Hillary Clinton. Turns out MoDo has a Palin shaped hole in her heart.

“As so often’s the case in Washington, The debate comes down to a three-letter word ending in X…of course I’m talking about ‘tax!’” — Mike Viqueira on MSNBC this morning, discussing health care reform debates on the Hill