Cursor's Media Patrol - 09/29/05

DeLay 'Exercises his right to incriminate himself,' during an interview on Fox News in which he said: "The point here is that it was my idea to set up TRMPAC. I got it all organized. Then the people ... ran the day-to-day operations."

The Senate confirms a Chief Justice, but Danny Schechter still wonders 'What Did Roberts Do in Florida?' -- and "did he have a 'double?'"

Hughes is "demonstrating, yet again, that the administration doesn't get it," editorializes USA Today, and according to a not yet posted report by a State Department advisory commission, "For what can be heard around the world ... is that America is less a beacon of hope than a dangerous force to be countered."

USA Today and Time profile the former Marine captain and "accidental star" who believes that his decision to work for Al-Jazeera "puts me where the good fight is."

Dan Rather said he wants to reopen an investigation into the story that led to "Memogate," but "CBS News doesn't want me to do that story," during an interview in which he observed that while three network news shows attract an audience of 30 million, "Fifty million people watch that nymphomaniac housewives show."