Johnny Dollar has the break in times for the three cable channels and it seems everyone but FNC couldn’t be too bothered with the news at first…

At 1:08 pm a Fox News Alert announced that the Israeli Prime Minister had been rushed to the hospital. Coverage included live reporting from Jennifer Griffin in Jerusalem and analysis by Dennis Ross. Meanwhile over at CNN, the “world’s news leader” didn’t interrupt its taped rerun of a chat show until 1:24 pm. As for MSNBC, they considered another rerun of their spellbinding Sean Connery bio to be more important and didn’t break in at all, not reporting the news until the 1:30 break.

UPDATE: Y’know, for a channel that, at least publicly, doesn’t seem to think much of CNN’s The Situation Room, FNC appears to have been copying its “cram a zillion video images, not all of them necessary, on the TV screen” approach to news going back almost since the week The Situation Room premiered. Somewhere Jonathan Klein is smirking over the irony I’ll bet…

Lynne Cheney was on Late Edition with Wolf Blitzer today. Full transcript follows…

WOLF BLITZER, CNN ANCHOR: Mrs. Cheney, welcome back to “LATE EDITION.”

LYNNE CHENEY, AUTHOR: Thanks. Fun to be here, always.

BLITZER: You’re here to talk about your new book, “A Time For Freedom,” and we’re going to talk about the book. Let’s talk about some of the issues on the agenda right now. There seems to have been a deal, and important deal, worked out between John McCain and the president on the issue of torture. Here’s what John McCain said the other day.
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With the last minute Presidential Address, the cable nets are modifying their schedules….

- FNC will bring Bill O’Reilly on at 8pm ET followed by the address at 9 pm ET with The Big Story at 9:30 with post address reaction. Brit Hume’s special “Religion in America: Church and State” shifts to 10:00 pm.

- CNN will follow the address with a live one hour Larry King Live

- MSNBC is bringing in Keith Olbermann to anchor the address and will follow it up with Tucker Carlson for the post address coverage.

UPDATE: Clarified FNC’s schedule…

Newsweek’s Elise Soukup has a “fast chat” with Anderson Cooper that despite the publication date seems rather “not current” to me…

You got huge ratings from the Katrina coverage. Do you fear you’ll become overexposed?

I don’t know. I certainly never planned to be an anchor. I didn’t, as a child, stare longingly in front of the mirror and repeat phrases with varying degrees of gravitas.