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The always-lively segment where our panelists bring a variety of their own short topics to the discussion. This week's rants and raves: Politico claims President Obama is flirting with a "failed presidency"; the Attleboro Sun Chronicle charges online users a fee to post comments; network coverage of the BP oil spill; the John Edwards story gets the Hollywood treatment; and Sarah Palin's savvy handling of Levi Johnston and Briston Palin's news;

Reporter Joe McGinniss is moving into the home next to Sarah Palin to write an unauthorized biography on the former VP candidate.  A New York Times reporter talks his way into the room of a deceased jazz legend and his ensuing report has critics claiming he invaded the musician’s privacy.   

Some interesting tidbits from the media landscape:

- Ayla Brown (the daughter of Senator Scott Brown) premiered her first contribution to the CBS Early Show on Thursday. The nicely-done piece shows Ayla taking on Michelle Obama's brother, Craig Robinson, on the basketball court.

Brown says that Robinson "believes you can tell a lot about a person's character by watching them play basketball," and, indeed, he "promised his sister Michelle he'd evaluate the character of her new love interest, Barack Obama, in a game of pick-up basketball."

For her part, Brown pushes to make shots whenever she can: "I know you're 6' 7"," she tells Robinson, "but I don't care."

Two weeks ago we took a swipe at Sarah Palin, calling her a "paycheck populist" for demanding Lear Jets and six-figure speaking fees and for continuing to bash the mainsteam media long after becoming a part of it.

Well, anyone interested exactly how big populist Palin's paychecks are should check out "PalinInc," this week's cover story in New York Magazine. Writer Gabriel Sherman begins his tale of Palin's rags-to-riches journey (if a $125,000 a year governorship can be described as "rags," that is) after the election and just before she decided to step down as governor of Alaska. That Palin is almost a sympathetic figure - increasingly unpopular in her home state, on the hook for $500,000 in legal bills from the "Troopergate" scandal, and prevented from taking monetary advantage of her newfound national fame by Alaska's ethics laws governing politicians.

Her choice is clear: Stay governor and slog it out or grab the national platform (and the cash) with both hands. Sherman's story is mostly about the aftermath of her doing the latter, structured around the breathtaking success of her personal brand as a political commentator, public speaker, and reality show host. By the end, it's clear that while Palin may appear with the Tea Party Express, her real ride is the gravy train.

UPDATE: Over at the Boston Phoenix, they're having some fun with the fact that writer and frequent "Greater Boston" guest expert David Bernstein called this one last year and that NY Mag's cover design is eerily similar to one the Phoenix put out in June.

Sarah Palin’s attacks against the “mainstream media” have continued even as her role in the media has increased. With her "Real American Stories" gig at Fox News and “Sarah Palin’s Alaska” on Discovery, can the former Republican VP nominee really claim she’s still a media outsider?

"Beat the Press" panelists sound off on their rants and raves of the week: the executive bonuses of New York Times executives are released; CBS's softball interview with President Obama; the Cleveland Plain Dealer releases the name of an anonymous poster and a public servant; Sarah Palin draws fire from a pair of musicians; and News Corp. puts up pay walls for online content.

Jon Stewart and Stephen Colbert? Of course. Jimmy Kimmel, Jimmy Fallon, and David Letterman? Completely expected. Robert Gibbs? Can you blame him? Andrea Mitchell on MSNBC? No thanks.

Sarah Palin's use of notes scribbled on her hand during her talk to the National Tea Party Convention has launched a veritable Greek comedic chorus of talking heads goofing on her for getting caught. On Palin's end, it's richly deserved. She'd been hitting the president hard for being just some "charismatic guy with a teleprompter," the clear implication of which was that Obama's attempts to rally the nation around issues like education and health care were coming from some speechwriter, not his heart. Then she gets caught palm-peeking like some middle schooler in a geometry final so she won't forget to mention things like "tax cuts" and "lift American spirits" - no-brainer Republican talking points which presumably should be coming from her heart rather than her palm.

Well, I was enjoying the humor as much as anyone until I saw Andrea Mitchell chime in on MSNBC. I'm sure it felt just too good to resist, but Mitchell should have done so anyway. Satirists and comedians are a dime a dozen these days, but respected journalists who play it straight are in increasingly short supply.

Fox News is wasting no time capitalizing on all the buzz about their signing of former GOP Veep candidate Sarah Palin as a regular commentator. She's making her debut tonight with Bill O'Reilly on "The O'Reilly Factor."

The shoot-from-the-hip former GOP veep candidate has landed on the shoot-from-the-hip news network. It's news so expected, it's almost unremarkable.

Fox News confirmed today that it has made room in its big tent for Sarah Palin. According to a story on the New York Times web site, Palin has inked a multi-year deal to appear regularly as a commentator but will not have her own show.

Yet.

Oh yea, and the Herald just endorsed Scott Brown.

The publication of Sarah Palin's new book, Going Rogue, has the former GOP Vice-Presidential candidate on virtually every media platform. Oprah Winfrey promoted her interview as a “world exclusive.”  ABC News just called it “exclusive.” Newsweek’s cover photo of Palin has been called sexist.  How has the news media portrayed Palin?