Inside the Bubble: Does Banal Rhyme with "Canal" or "Anal"?
•CNN's opinion of its viewers, encapsulated in the DC bureau chief's description of "The Blog Report": "It’s sort of like Blogs 101...Or the Reader’s Digest of blogs. Or Blogs for Dummies." They said it, not us. [ NYO ]
•Isikoff on Cooper: He should have tried to "cajole [Rove] into going on the record and leaning on him with information gleaned from other sources. Instead, Isikoff asserted, 'It seems like Time stopped reporting.'" [ Media Nation ]
•Anderson Cooper and Aaron Brown have hot co-anchor action. [ TVNewser ]
•Rumors of violence in New Orleans prove to be just rumors, but Bush still glad he didn't actually have to go until it was dry and stuff. [ NYT and NOLA ]
•CBS's "Public Eye" has tin ear: Headlines regarding "Early Show" exec Michael Bass include " Reeling In A Bass " and " Pump Up The Bass ."
•"Inside the Bubble," the movie: "Watching the film is going to subject you to a lot of ungainly behavior." [ ABC ] Also: The Stephanie Factor returns ( WM ).