Geraldo Angling For A Wacko Jacko Chat?
Geraldo on "At Large" tonight: "I'm a lot less sure than most of my colleagues...that the traveling circus...is going to hurt him in court. Bad taste or not, the events and the equally strange party at Neverland afterwards didn't turn out that badly. ...The worst thing about yesterday's tacky spectacle was that it made the defendant 20 minutes late." I'm going to agree with TVHeads: "[Geraldo would] kiss Hitler's ass to get an interview. Talk about pandering." He aired "insider footage" of the caravan of love from his "embedded" field producer. The snafus, technical and otherwise, made the show worth watching... 10:39:11 PM

Kudos to WP Web Site's Campaign Coverage
A suggestion for MSNBC's bosses: Type in washingtonpost.com. This is supposedly one of your partners. It's called the Washington Post. Get to know them. Now "borrow" some of their election content. The videos on WP's web site are better than anything I've seen on the cable nets all week. It's raw, unhyped, revealing -- conversations with voters, bloggers, reporters, even Jimmy Hoffa. THIS is journalism. Why can't this content find a wider audience on-air? Use your embeds and your partners to take viewers inside the campaigns... 10:38:38 PM

Richard Roth Doesn't Cook
I've got every angle of cable news covered -- even CNNer Richard Roth's eating habits. "He doesn't cook, and he has a bibliophile's collection of takeout menus," the WashPost reports in Sunday editions. His apartment building now requires deliverymen to show I.D., but many deliveries have to wait at the front desk. "The whole point of food delivery is to receive chicken parmigiana in your pajamas...[But] These days, security trumps pasta." 10:35:32 PM

A Reporters Notebook from Neverland
FOX's Adam Housley of describes his day covering M.J.: "This has become the traveling courtroom road show...At least seven helicopters follow his every move from Neverland Ranch...Almost a decade after O.J., the country has another high-profile legal circus on its hands." 5:39:11 PM

"Excruciatingly faithful coverage" of M.J.
The LATimes critiques the circus: "Cable news, predictably, was good for the excruciatingly faithful coverage. CNN even joked about bringing us live pictures of "some doors," through which Jackson would eventually emerge, but only MSNBC seemed to stick around for the after-party." 10:34:40 AM

Read All About Scarborough Country
MSNBC talking head Joe Scarborough has signed a $600,000 deal with HarperCollins. He will write what hopes to be "the definitive book on how Washington wastes our tax dollars," to be released by the end of the year, Crain's reports. 10:34:17 AM

"Can Hollywood write the script for the campaign?"
Atlanta Journal-Constitution asks: What difference do celebrity endorsements make? "Can Hollywood write the script for the campaign?" The very-quotable Larry Sabato chimes in: "Madonna and Wesley Clark: What do they do? They attract cameras so the candidate can then get a message across." 10:31:14 AM

Quote of the day
Sgt. Michael Davis, serving in Iraq, wrote this in a letter to his parents, quoted in the Hampton Chronicle: "Occasionally we see some television. Everybody wants to watch FOX News and CNN to see what people back home think about us. Mostly we get (ticked) off. Some smug fat man in a $3,000 suit will tell us how to win the war. His military background includes two semester-hours of military science in college. I stick to DVDs and sitcom re-runs." 10:29:59 AM