P2+ Total Day
FNC - 913,000 viewers
CNN - 551,000 viewers
MSNBC - 264,000 viewers
CNBC -140,000 viewers
HLN - 267,000 viewers

P2+ Prime Time
FNC - 1,641,000 viewers
CNN- 1,077,000 viewers
MSNBC - 409,000 viewers
CNBC - 128,000 viewers
HLN - 457,000 viewers

25-54 Total Day
FNC- 281,000 viewers
CNN - 179,000 viewers
MSNBC - 111,000 viewers
CNBC - a scratch with 42,000 viewers
HLN - 99,000 viewers

25-54 Prime Time
FNC - 418,000 viewers
CNN - 291,000 viewers
MSNBC - 167,000 viewers
CNBC - a scratch with 40,000 viewers
HLN- 181,000 viewers
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This ad on the right had been appearing on CNN the past couple of days though it wasn’t clear what it was referring to. Now the confusion can be cleared up. CNN’s Pipeline will be replaying CNN’s coverage of 9/11 as it happened the network announced today…

For the fifth anniversary of the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks, CNN Pipeline will replay CNN’s coverage from that day in time with how it happened five years ago. Offered free on Monday, the coverage begins at 8:30 a.m. (ET), minutes before the first news reports of a plane hitting the World Trade Center in New York City.

Additionally, CNN Pipeline will feature live reports from memorial services in New York City, Washington, D.C., and Pennsylvania. CNN.com also will offer online users unrivaled, comprehensive reports, video and audio clips and other elements to show how life in the United States changed over the past five years.

“No other network has the resources in place to allow a full-scale, unprecedented replay of its original 9/11 coverage in the same time sequence as it actually happened,” said David Payne, senior vice president and general manager of CNN.com. “With the flexibility of CNN Pipeline, we can offer that to our online users, giving them the power to choose more elements of news and information for them to best remember the anniversary.”
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House of Representatives Speaker Dennis Hastert and Democratic Leader Nancy Pelosi have written a letter to Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas concerning the kidnapping of Steve Centanni and Olaf Wiig…
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GretaWire writes about some prominently placed cookies…

You need to watch closely on Brit Hume’s 6 p.m. ET show… you never know what you will see behind him in the newsroom. Newsrooms are very, very, very busy — there is lots going on. We live in the newsroom, sometimes even eating at our desks since we are literally crashing. And last night? Well, last night someone put a plate of cookies in the newsroom not far behind Brit’s anchor chair (Brit is separated from the newsroom with soundproof glass so his set and anchor chair can feel like it is far away even though it is a short distance.) What happened? Well, the cookies in the newsroom got attention — let’s just say they were an attractive nuisance. And one other thing, don’t tell Brit — I don’t think he knows (but he does have a good sense of humor) that there was chowing down in the back of his shot.

The Boston Globe’s Scott Lehigh deservedly torches the networks for pandering to the John Mark Karr arrest…

So why do we find ourselves subjected to an overload of supposed news about the decade-old Boulder murder? Network news executives surely know this story doesn’t deserve to lead a serious newscast, or even occupy a prominent place in one. But it’s an easy matter to cover, and they have obviously decided they can attract and hold viewers by making the lurid case a news staple. It’s hard to avoid the conclusion that their bottom-line judgment amounts to this: Many of our viewers can’t separate the important from the trivial — and they will change the channel if we do that for them.

The Hollywood Reporter’s Paul J. Gough writes a long piece on the one year anniversary of hurricane Katrina…

Van Susteren points to Shep Smith as an example of how a journalist did great work without fanfare.

“Shep did all of this in the most unthinkable conditions and never bragged about it,” she said. “He did it for two reasons: one, because it’s his job, and second, he gives a damn. And he got the story out.”

CNN’s Cooper has been focused on this story since the beginning and has spent weeks in the region and still goes back on a regular basis.

“We’ve tried to keep the attention focused on what’s happening there. For the people of New Orleans and gulf coast Mississippi, the winds of Katrina continue to blow,” he said. “This is not some anniversary that has suddenly popped up in the calendar for them. It’s something they’re living with every day. For me, it’s a continuation of what we’ve been trying to do, which is holding people accountable, public officials and representatives for what they’ve said they’re going to do, and what they have done and what they haven’t done.”

Cooper earned plaudits — and some ire — for his emotion-tinged reports and sparring with public officials like Sen. Mary Landrieu, D-La. Cooper doesn’t make any apologies for his approach, though he said he doesn’t think of himself as an advocacy journalist.

“A piece of America was cut out and was decimated,” Cooper said. “I think it’s unconscionable that any of us can move on from it so quickly.”