As we noticed last night, much of cable news was curiously occupied with taped programming yesterday evening in the midst of giant weekend news. Both the House passage of a health care bill and a live Fort Hood press conference occurred Saturday night, but CNN and MSNBC were locked in with pre-taped shows and thus missed a few big moments. (more...)

TVNewser has been running a lengthy series of polls to see who readers think will be the next host of Good Morning America, taking Diane Sawyer's seat on the couch. Two of the competitors in the online poll race are taking it very, very seriously. (more...)

Amidst this weekend's wall-to-wall Ted Kennedy coverage, and the growing Sarah Palin anniversary retrospectives (hard to believe it's only been twelve months!) it was sometimes difficult to recall that Saturday marked the fourth anniversary of Hurricane Katrina hitting New Orleans. It's not that the media hadn't gone to some advanced lengths to cover the anniversary -- CNN's American Morning featured a week long series, and this weekend's Times magazine had a number of articles including the cover story; Michael Lewis' piece recounting his arrival in his hometown shortly after Katrina landed is a must-read. So it's not so much that the story was ignored but that the anniversary, which normally is an end of August media focal point, failed to permeate the larger conversation in the wake of more immediate events. (more...)