What’s Hot:
Thomas Roberts – Rumors and innuendo swirl that Thomas Roberts has been hired full time by NBC/MSNBC. So far no official announcement has been made.
Team Piers Morgan – First Jonathan Wald, then Steve Krakauer. Now Connor Hanna and Melanie Lefkowitz. I made a crack on Twitter about waiting on pins and needles until someone calls this “The Dream Team”. I was only half joking. This is an awful lot of previously outside of CNN firepower coming together behind one program.
Wikileaks – Lots of air time at the end of the week was devoted to today’s latest release by Wikileaks.
What’s Not:
TSA Junk Touching – Too much righteous indignation over invasion of privacy, not enough about flying being a privilege and not a right in a world where terrorists like to bring down planes. I will spare myself inclusion on Jay Rosen’s list by saying that this isn’t about some people needing to “grow up”. Instead I’ll say that if you want to fly, you’re going to have to understand that the days of whizzing through airports without restriction and inconvenience are long gone and aren’t coming back. That isn’t to say that the TSA is perfect or that we’re doing the best job possible of threat detection or that the mechanisms we’re using to scan people aren’t fundamentally flawed. But then that’s not the central issue to “junk touching”, is it?
