FOX beat CNN 2:1 in Total Day and 3:1 in Primetime with each FOX Primetime show having more than 2.3 million viewers. MSNBC came close to reclaiming 3rd place from HLN in Total Day. And what’s going on with The Situation starting to show signs of life? It had been averaging 150,000 viewers but the last couple of days its viewer total has gone significantly higher. That Deutcsch number isn’t a typo. He only had 40,000 total viewers.
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For Monday’s Shuttle Return, John Scott will host FOX’s coverage starting at 3 am EST with Jamie Colby and Jonathan Serrie reporting from Kennedy Space Center in Florida, Phil Keating and and Alicia Acuna from Johnson Space Center. Scott will be joined by former Apollo 11 Astronaut Buzz Aldrin, and former Astronaut Tom Jones. NASA Astronaut and space walk expert Scott Parazynski will provide analysis from Kennedy Space Center…

A special edition of FOX and Friends will begin at 5 am EST…

Another busy day for ICN. Blogging will be sporadic the rest of the day and return full time on Sunday. Hopefully it will be a quiet day this time…

The Guardian has an article on a new photo agency service that wants to sell people’s “news photos” to the media…(via Buzzmachine)

Kyle Macrae, an IT journalist and technical author based in Glasgow, recently launched Scoopt, the first photo agency set up “specifically and exclusively for citizen journalists”. His aim is to recruit a large pool of amateur photographers armed with cameraphones and digital cameras. Members then hand their newsworthy images to Scoopt, which tries to sell them direct to newspapers and magazines, splitting the fee 50/50 with the photographer. The agency already has a couple of hundred members in nearly 30 countries.

Buzzmachine weighs in….

I wonder whether there’s a conflict between the inherently open and immediate world of citizens’ media and the closed, exclusive-addicted world of big media: Will citizen journalists decide not to share what they see so they can sell an exclusive to a paper or TV show? If they share their material online first, doesn’t that lower the value of what they’re selling to media, because it’s no longer exclusive.

The Washington Post’s Names and Faces advances the Novak story by getting Novak on the record about the incident…

Reached by the Post’s John Maynard shortly after the incident, Novak said Carville “was questioning my motives. . . . I would hope he was just trying to be funny and I took it the wrong way. I shouldn’t have done what I did, but I did and I apologize.”

Hal Boedeker of the Orlando Sentinel does a brief write-up on CNN new programming headed by Wolf Blitzer…

Wolf Blitzer says that CNN’s The Situation Room will not be your father’s — or grandfather’s — newscast.

“This is going to be something a lot more exciting to the viewer, and I think, in the end, a lot more helpful,” says Blitzer, the program’s anchor.

David Bauder of the AP: (via The Corner)

A CNN spokeswoman, Edie Emery, called Novak’s behavior “inexcusable and unacceptable.” Novak apologized to CNN, and CNN was apologizing to viewers, she said.

“We’ve asked Mr. Novak to take some time off,” she said.

A telephone message at Novak’s office was not immediately returned Thursday

The Freepers are all over the map on the story…