• Judy Woodruff ends on a high note: "Oh, I knew if I started naming names, it would be too many. Thank you. My gosh. This is just to fill -- this is to fill the half-hour." [CNN]

• Ken Mehlmann "respectfully disagrees" with Tim Russert six times in one interview. [Reference Tone]

• "'I have this little game I play in my head when someone gets an appointment,' said Chris Matthews, the host of MSNBC's 'Hardball.'" Only he can't stop playing! [Low Culture]

• Looking at the NYT looking at class: The series is "clearly intended to trigger a quiet shudder of patrician thanksgiving that Times readers really do not go there but for the grace of God." [Boston Phoenix]