TV Barn Ticker for today ...

Here's a quick summary of all the news and comment from the world of TV and media that I published or read today, dispensed in bite-sized nuggets:

• They're playing Charlie Parker With Strings on WWOZ right now. That is a kick-ass station, is all I can say.
• Remember: The RIAA doesn't support artists, only writers & publishers. RT @DrewKerr Richard Marx blasts RIAA bit.ly/1FGTq
• Heaven help us! RT @jimmaiella: I think we're headed to a 2-hour block: Kate+8 followed by Jon+8, see their different parenting styles ...
• Great line from @nytimes story: "But past vacations never left Sanford completely out of touch." That was HIS doing! bit.ly/AipN9
• RT @KrisKetz: One of Chicago's best reporters - John Callaway, the longtime host of "Chicago Tonight" on Ch 11 - has died
• Seems @brianstelter didn't have court docs in hand or he woulda asked if TLC knew Jon + Kate were sleeping apart - bit.ly/4hTlV
• The hell? NIP/TUCK finale is in the can but won't air until 2011 - tr.im/pAY5
• "Real NJ Housewife" Danielle's real scary criminal background - coke, extortion and prison, oh my! tr.im/pB6o
• I'm not saying I don't believe the Guv, but someone should check organ recipient lists at all the hospitals in Buenos Aires
• Another journalistic triumph for TMZ! RT @brianstelter: AP later issued correction to the "two year" claim.
• Watching Chris Matthews on MORNING JOE today after @rachelsklar's alert, my verdict: Mika and Joe's emotions got in the way, not Chris's
• Losing your TV signal will do that! Nielsen says 400K homes got DTV after June 12 - tr.im/pC0z
• Willie Geist: "What an odd show we have." Joe and Chris arguing like Rosie and Elizabeth (per @rachelsklar) and CNBC's Mark on guitar
• Sanford presser beginning now on C-SPAN.
• OK, it's off C-SPAN ... but everyone except Cartoon Network is carrying it.
• OMG. Sanford just bumped Tom Ensign off the cover of GOP SEX SCANDAL MONTHLY
• Oops, correction - because of the poor ad market it changed its name to GOP SEX SCANDAL QUARTERLY last year.
• Someone at @TheOnion is awfully handy with search! RT Congressman Offers Preemptive Apology For Extramarital Affair bit.ly/vM0hz
• RT @disett Do Clinton, Edwards, Spitzer have a magazine? A: Of course! Time, Newsweek also CBS/NBC/ABC/NYT - they run the MSM remember??
• RT @troycoverdale CNN: Fooling around has been a "bipartisan problem." [Hey, who said it's a PROBLEM? It's the cure for a slow news day!]
• Anybody else want a piece a me? I'm not even breaking a sweat!
• Anyway, the irony is Sanford made his bones as a FISCAL conservative but is stuck in a party where this nonsense gets you creamed...
• Look at the Dem side. Bubba came all the way back, Eliot is making strides. It's because Dems just don't care like the religious right
• Well, that's the kind of witty, penetrating analysis that your 326 followers demand of you.
• Yes, but only Mark Sanford could appear on the cover of FOREIGN AFFAIRS!
• RT @xenijardin: Who's factchecking these $15MM quotes for the Nikki Finke deal? By that math, my left buttcheek's gotta be $10MM
• Reporters hang on his words, even the cliches. He can disarm you w/ his words OR his emails. He IS - the most interesting man in the world.
• "What is it about governors, for godsakes?" - Letterman
• The line on Joakim Soria tonight: Second blown save of the season. Also, second win of the season. His ERA is now higher than Zack's.

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