STEWART/COLBERT '08 Joining Conan, Leno, Letterman, Ferguson and trail blazer, Carson Daly, Jon Stewart and Steven Colbert will return with new shows, produced without writers, starting January 7. [NYT]
• Charlie Gibson comes out on top, ahead of Brian Williams and Katie Couric. Also, his quips were better — when Hillary Clinton won: "That had all the surprise of a Doris Day movie."
• Jon Friedman calls Fox News' coverage "fair and balanced." Which is ironic, disturbing, suspicious, and predictable all at once.
• Cable networks were cautious in using exit poll numbers to predict outcomes. Well, only when it came to deciding whether the Democrats would win control of the House. Anderson Cooper, meanwhile, looked cute in pinstripes.
• Steven Colbert wins for best graphics. His Catastrophometer "measured Democrat victories on a scale that alternated between Jesus and Osama Bin Laden."
• FNC stopped relying on election poll data when one smarty found it skewed in the Dems favor by as much as eight points compared with actual results.
• Keith Olbermann and Chris Matthews made MSNBC the most compelling, for some. Us? We couldn't follow Matthew's lack of attention span.
• MSNBC touts its 58 million pageviews.
• Jossip spent the evening watching Nip/Tuck and The New Adventures of Old Christine.
• Walter Cronkite loves Jim Lehrer. Now, if only he could just remember what channel he's on. [Texas Monthly]
• Emily Davies just accidentally made all that shit up. [WWD]
• Too bad Duane Swierczynski's article didn't reach her sooner. Oh, yeah, and does this mean that journalism school is not pointless anymore? [PCP]
• Steven Colbert's word "truthiness" wins the American Dialect Society's "word of the year." Damn, we were so hoping it would be PopoZao! [Gothamist]
• So, Judith Miller doesn't really have time to talk right now. Unlike everyone else in this industry, she has reporting to do, so if you bitches could all just back the fuck off. [Observer]
