CNN’s Dr. Sanjay Gupta will keynote the 2006 Asian American Journalists Association Convention on June 23rd…

“In addition to being one of the highest-profile Asian American journalists today, Dr. Gupta covered the health and medical angles of some of the biggest stories of this new century,” said Esther Wu, a columnist with The Dallas Morning News and national president of AAJA. “Our convention attendees can look forward to an insightful and illuminating keynote from a remarkable physician and broadcaster.”

Hearne Christopher Jr. on Kansas City.com writes about Fox and Friends host Steve Doocy’s Kansas City roots…

Kate Spade, Calvin Trillin, Harry Truman — to that list of famous Cowtown exports add Fox News anchor Steve Doocy.

The whimsical weather wonk turned affable anchor of the top-rated “Fox & Friends” morning show is a real deal KC export. He grew up in Dickinson County near Abilene, Kan.

“I went to the University of Kansas (in the early ’80s), and while I was at KU I was an intern at Channel 9. I also worked at classic station KANU-FM in Lawrence. And one year I was the manager at KJHK in Lawrence and I worked at a disco in downtown Lawrence called Bugsy’s. It was in the historic Lawrence Opera House (now Liberty Hall).”

Following up on yesterday’s item on The Ethical Edge, as far as I could tell there wasn’t any TV advertising Sunday either. And there was no repeat showing for the West Coast so if you didn’t tune in at 3 pm PST you missed it. Combine the lack of advertising last weekend and the one off airing with the last second insertion of the show in to the Sunday schedule and it makes me wonder if MSNBC is giving up on the series even though Edge host Chris Jansing (subbing for Alex Witt yesterday) and Contessa Brewer did segments on it several times on MSNBC Live yesterday. They’ve been running spots since last Friday for the Scarborough special airing tonight. Ethical Edge? Nada…

The Minneapolis Star Tribune’s Neal Justin has a Q&A with Aaron Brown… (via TVNewser)

Q What do you want to do next?

A I’ve been talking to some people about doing an interview program and maybe a couple of documentaries a year. I’ve pretty much set up an office at Grand Central Station. If you want to talk to me, we sit in one of three restaurants there and do business. That way, I don’t have to pay rent. No one is paying any attention to us because we’re lost in the crowd, and I can get the train and be home in 32 minutes.

Q What kind of documentary would you like to do?

A I’d cover five kids back from Iraq and spend six months with them as they try to re-acclimate to civilian life. I would try to connect their injuries to certain decisions they made before going over. Whether or not the war was right, I know those kids were sent in without the kind of gear that would have saved lives and limbs.

The Aspen Times’ Meredith Cohen writes about Anderson Cooper and his new book. Sort of… (via FTVLive)

In his tome, Cooper writes about how the horrors of Hurricane Katrina “forced [him] to confront his painful past.” We’ll find out for sure when the book is released on Tuesday - but being a son of blue jeans designer Gloria Vanderbilt and a great-great-grandson of railroad magnate Cornelius Vanderbilt presumably didn’t inspire his anguish.

However, his woeful tale of posing in Ralph Lauren and Calvin Klein duds for money at the age of 10 so he could provide for himself (despite the hundreds of millions in his family’s bank account) could understandably be enough to elicit manly “tears of fury” similar to those for which Cooper became celebrated while covering the ravaged shores of the Gulf Coast last fall.

It occasionally feels as if Cooper’s well-documented watery eyes over the atrocities of Katrina’s aftermath receive as much attention as the storm itself. While being interviewed on “Larry King Live” this winter, Jon Stewart asked about Cooper, “Is he crying again? Did something happen?”

The New York Post’s Michael Starr dishes…

Dan Abrams, who covers the courts and legal system on MSNBC’s “The Abrams Report,” won’t be hosting his show today - because he’s been called for jury duty. Abrams, who reports to the New York Supreme Court this morning, has received permission from the court to bring along a camera crew. He wants to do a piece on his jury-duty experiences for tomorrow’s “Abrams Report” (4 and 6 p.m.) - unless, of course, he’s chosen for a jury

The Hartford Courant’s Kim Martineau writes about Anderson Cooper’s address at Yale to the class of 2006…

Cooper grew up privileged, the son of writer Wyatt Cooper and fashion designer Gloria Vanderbilt. Yet loss defined his childhood. His father died of a heart attack and his brother later committed suicide by jumping from their penthouse apartment in Manhattan. In the current Vanity Fair magazine, Cooper describes his brother’s suicide and the allure of covering disasters.

He returned to that theme Sunday.

“I learned that when you go the edges of the world where the boundaries aren’t clear, where the dark parts of the human heart are open for all to see, you learn things about yourself and you learn things about your fellow human beings and what we’re capable of,” he said.