• The future of television news is "no more anchors." Just Wolf Blitzer, pacing in front of a drive-in movie theater screen. [NYM]

• Kaus's verdict on TimesSelect: "Inhibited writers, inhibited linkers, inhibited dialogue." [Slate]

• CNN operator sees X on Cheney's face as not so much an accident but an act of God. [NYP]

• The new Nightline went live. Live, damn it. Did we mention it's LIVE LIVE LIVE? (Please add nude girls.) [TVNewser]

• Howie Kurtz like Katie Couric for her mind. Or close to it: "Hey, I'm way too professional to think about her legs (though it's hard not to keep track of her ever-blonder hair)." [WP]