Buried in an AP report in Paris Hilton mania is a blurb that MSNBC’s current Morning Joe team member Mika Brzezinski is getting a regular anchor slot…

She attracted the world’s attention. Brzezinski’s gotten over a thousand e-mails, and was named “woman of the week” by a British Web site. She’s been invited to address a media symposium in Scotland. The New Zealand Herald hailed her: “Deliberate or not, there is no denying the incident struck a chord with viewers the world over. When it comes to Paris, we’ve all had enough.”

It may be a coincidence, but three days after the incident MSNBC told Brzezinski that she will have a regular hour to anchor the news each morning.

The New York Post’s Phil Mushnick spends considerable space trashing Larry King and then defends him…

And so it made perfect sense that Paris Hilton’s first post-lockup interview would be with King. And it made equally perfect sense that columnists would mock the arrangement. And it made sense - perhaps reflexive, conditioned sense - that King would take a beating after his Q & A with Ms. Hilton. And he did.

Except that King, following his session with Hilton, was, perhaps for the first time, unfairly bashed. During that Hilton interview he actually asked one of his all-time, best-timed questions. Seriously. Not that it would take much, but King asked her a question that left the heiress totally, you should excuse the expression, undressed.

The Nepal Monitor’s Dharma Adhikari has a Q&A with American Morning’s Kiran Chetry…

One of the criticisms of the US media is that they pay little attention to international affairs, specially the US-based TV programs. And also the criticism about the coverage of minorities—it is not always accurate. How do you look at this?

I think that the US news media does cover US stories and sometimes centers around things that perhaps affect a small number of people or focus on one missing person, let’s say, when there is so much other news happening. But I think that CNN covers global issues better than anyone else, frankly, not only with the coverage of CNN domestic but also CNN International. We are some of the only people that have correspondents and bureaus all over the world, including in Africa and Asia. I think we are better at it than others.

In terms of minorities and television, no doubt, there is an under-representation. I don’t think it is intentional, but that it is something that many news organizations are moving toward becoming more mindful of and taking steps to change in the future.

As a broadcast journalist, how do you keep tab on international affairs?

We always have CNN International, CNN en Español, Headline News and CNN on. Of course, we have the wires and feeds that are coming in continuously. These are video feeds where you get information on various stories. And we rely on our producers as well to flag interesting things. This is a 24/7 operation. News stories breaking around the world are monitored at all times and drawn to our attention. Of course, you can’t always cover it all but we certainly have resources at our fingertips so we are always able to keep abreast and cover the different stories.

So it is just a matter of reading—I get a lot of the big newspapers in the morning stacked on to my desk. We also have them right at our computers; we can watch video that is available to CNN at all times. The Internet also plays an enormous role in broadening our world and making us aware of other things that are going on across the world.