CNN broadcast CNN International at 6 am. They also did it at 1 AM and CNNI had the Qana airstrike. CNN did a live edition of Larry King Live with John Roberts hosting from Israel. Kyra Phillips was at the newsdesk in Atlanta.

FNC had a bunch of reports during Fox and Friends and Fox News Live at 10 am from Greg Burke, Greg Palkot, Steve Centani, and David Lee Miller reporting from around the region. Studio B with Trace Gallagher was live from Israel. FNC was live with War Stories, Hannity & Colmes, and On The Record.

UPDATE: An emailer writes in to note that FNC also had the Qana airstrike at 4:10 am with Darby Dunn anchoring and David Lee Miller and Greg Palkot reporting from the region.

MSNBC cut back its daytime coverage, which it had expanded two weeks ago to cover the crisis. It went to tape at 4 pm and stayed there with news updates every half hour. MSNBC spent a lot of time talking strategy with its military analysts; moreso than usual. Usually it’s just one analyst on at a time but today there were as many as three on at the same time.

This morning on CNN’s Reliable Sources one of the subjects discussed was the Middle East crisis and the media. Joining Howard Kurtz were CNN anchor John Roberts, CNN special correspondent Frank Sesno, and author/blogger Eric Boehlert. Transcript follows…

KURTZ: Welcome back to RELIABLE SOURCES. We turn now to the question whether Israel and Lebanon are getting a fair shake in the media coverage of a war that’s produced civilian casualties and disturbing images on both sides.

Joining us now to talk about that and other issues, in New York, Eric Boehlert who blogs at the huffingtonpost.com and is author of the new book “Lapdogs” about the Beltway press corps.

Here in Washington, Frank Sesno, CNN special correspondent and professor of media and public affairs at the George Washington (sic) University. And in northern Israel along the border is CNN’s John Roberts.

John Roberts, what has been the Israeli media reaction to the mounting civilian casualties in Lebanon, even leaving aside this morning’s devastation of a four- story apartment building. Is there anguish about this or is there a sense that, well this, is war?
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Variety’s Michael Learmonth writes that FNC is close to settling a sex discrimination lawsuit filed by the EEOC regarding advertising/on-air promotions executive Joe Chillemi…

Fox News Channel is close to settling a sex discrimination suit filed by the Feds on behalf of four former female employees.

In a deal expected to be announced as soon as Monday, sources said Fox will pay a nominal sum — less than $250,000 — to the four women involved, but admits no wrongdoing.

FNC will be airing live version of Hannity & Colmes and On The Record with Greta Van Susteren at 9 pm and 10 pm ET respectively…

Running around the internet this morning I came across this in the New York Times by Richard Siklos. I don’t know how many FNC staff will qualify for this because the “250 most senior News Corp Managers” is a pretty small group considering the size of News Corp. But it sure looks impressive. You’d think it was Davos or something…

The gathering kicks off with an introduction by Mr. Murdoch, remarks by Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger of California and an address by Prime Minister Tony Blair of Britain.

The agenda includes discussions featuring Senator John McCain, the former House speaker Newt Gingrich and the former Vice President Al Gore, and a “town hall meeting” with Bill Clinton. Bono will deliver a keynote speech, as will former Prime Minister Shimon Peres of Israel.