Kennedy Calls Media "Despicable"

WTLV Anchor Reads, Goes Into Labor

ABC News Admits Toyota Mistake

CNN Developing New Morning Show

Bleeding's still leading the local TV newscasts.According to a new study from USC Annenberg School for Communication and Journalism, an average half-hour of Los Angeles local newscasts contains just 22 seconds of local government coverage.That includes stories about budgets, law enforcement, education, new ordinances, voting procedures, city and government actions and more, the study said. Coverage of local business and the economy, meanwhile, averaged just 29 seconds.

Forrmer CBS4 News managing editor Cesar Aldama, currently assistant news director for CBS-Owned stations in Philadelphia, was named Wednesday as the News Director of CBS4 News, succeeding Adrienne Roark, who was named news director of CBS-Owned KTVT and KTXA in Dallas, replacing Scott Diener who has move on to KCBS in Los Angeles.

Since Dan Rather used one of his trademark folksy sayings on “The Chris Matthews Show” Sunday, comparing Obama’s difficulty with pushing health care reform to being unable to sell watermelons on the side of the road with the help of a state trooper, he’s gotten plenty of criticism, mostly from the right.

CNN is more concerned about competition from social networks than other cable news networks, CNN U.S. president Jonathan Klein said here Wednesday. "The competition I'm really afraid of are social networking sites," he said in a keynote interview at Bloomberg BusinessWeek's Media Summit New York. They provide "an alternative that threatens to pull people away from us."