What’s hot:

Rosie O’Donnell - The story flared up big on Monday and quickly died by Wednesday. But it was the talk of everyone; Would Rosie O’Donnell come to MSNBC primetime? In the end the story was overblown and the outcome predictable.

MSNBC admits going left in primetime - Giving Bill O’Reilly a huge adrenaline shot in his feud with NBC, an article in the New York Times talking about the Rosie talks came out framing the story as part of MSNBC’s turn left in primetime.

Glenn Beck gets a big raise - Glenn Beck signed a mega-million dollar deal for his radio program and consequently got his name in print all over the place. It doesn’t immediately impact his HLN program any, but there could be a coattail effect at some point.

The Situation Room and Lou Dobbs Tonight switch positions - There’s a lot of speculation about the kind of impact this switcheroo this will have on both shows. Still early days yet so no conclusions can be drawn.

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I thought the story had blown itself out. Apparently Rosie felt otherwise. The New York Post’s Ginger Adam Otis has more…

NBC wanted Rosie O’Donnell to host a talk show on its struggling cable network so badly that head honcho Jeff Zucker personally wooed her for six months, the comic said yesterday.

“We were very close to our own deal for MSNBC,” O’Donnell told the packed room at Manhattan’s Hunter College, where she was speaking at a feminist conference.

“I was asked - actually heavily courted - by Zucker to do a one-hour pundit show.”