• The GOP apologists at National Review want the White House to revoke the Times's press credentials. [NR]
• The White House, thankfully, doesn't think so highly of the idea. [E&P]
• Knight Ridder is officially no more. [SJMN]
• Dan Rather had to die so that CBS News could live. [NYSun]
• People style spinoff TK? Perhaps. [WWD]
• There are no mags for teenage boys, and, for some reason, the Eat the Pressers are upset about this. [HuffPost]

• Highlights turns 60. Gallant is excited, Goofus is off in the corner reading porn. [BG]
• President Bush apologizes to blind reporter he mocked yesterday, scraps plan to ask deaf journalist "Can you hear me now?" [Wonkette]
• Time Out ups the ante in city's ever-growing critical-assessment arsenal. BONUS: Frank Bruni describes what a star looks like. [NYT]
• Memo to media Jews: If you promise to stop writing articles about soccer, we'll promise to pretend that you're really virile, rugged athletic types. [NYO]
• Rupert Murdoch not just in it for the evil, also likes the money aspect. [Forbes]

Civic-minded sibling Wonkette notes the following exchange between President Bush and a member of the press corps this morning:

A cameraphone-wielding reader sends a report from West 24th Street, between Ninth and Tenth avenues: "was having a particularly heinous day yesterday until a) i found a prime parking spot (on the wrong side of the street but whatever) and b) this was right by the curb.... it was so unexpected and delicious — made my day."

Um, duh.

After 24 hours and some 11,000 votes — by a long shot Gawker's most popular poll ever — the answer is clear: Stephen Colbert's White House Correspondents' Dinner performance was one of the most patriotic acts you've witnessed of any individual.

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Yes, we went to Washington for the White House Correspondents' Dinner, but, no, we did not actually go to the dinner. And thus we have not yet seen Stephen Colbert's either staggeringly brilliant or thoroughly mediocre keynote performance. Judging from yesterday's email, this silence is troubling you. Wrote one old high school pal, who now toils for a major media company helping to produce TV shows about how much we all enjoyed pop culture in previous decades:

His Fox News colleague Juan Williams, meantime, remains in negotiations to become Bush's black press secretary.

Between the new issue of Rolling Stone and the new issue of The Nation, cartoonist Robert Grossman is clearly, as the Observer notes, having his best week ever. At least until Jann Wenner and Katrina vanden Heuvel notice he sold basically the same image to two mags at the same time, and vow never to work with him again.

Watch now!

Then the president traveled to Capitol Hill, where he kicked several Democratic legislators in the shins. Just because he could.

Drudge Report

On a red bar across the top of CNN.com right now:

And it occurs to us: Maybe they keep Cheney hidden away in bunkers not for his own security but rather for everyone else's.

Jeez, the poor guy. It must be terrible to feel abandoned by the administration in your hour of need.

The CNN.com homepage at 9:31 p.m. last night, in the middle of the State of the Union:

A front-page Times headline today:

The poll also shows, apparently, that Americans are self-contradictory morons. Or at least that they have no idea what the hell "civil liberties" means.

• Bush could out-Nixon Nixon and prosecute the Times and its reporters and editors for publishing domestic-spying story. Which would both suck and not be at all surprising. [Boston Phoenix]
• One, very small upside of the miners-are-saved-oh-no-they're-not disaster and debacle: Editors actually got to yell, "Stop the presses!" [NYT]
• WP pulls newspapering into the early 20th century, announcing forthcoming launch of Washington Post radio. [WP]