Afternoon report
* Frank Rich talks about “Veep,” his new HBO program. (PR Newser)
* Toronto Star once thought Ernest Hemingway was “too big for his britches.” (Toronto Star | (Hemingway columns)
* New class of University of Michigan Knight-Wallace Fellows comes from GQ, WaPo, BBC, Bloomberg TV, other news orgs. (MNFellows.org)
* Fox News extends contract of political news anchor Bret Baier. (New York Times)
* Manhattan DA refuses to disclose contacts with Fox News or Roger Ailes. (Gawker)
* Ongo — a newspaper industry (NYT, WP, Gannett) effort to create a pan-media subscription system — is folding. (NiemanLab.org)
* Dan Mitchell: “If forced-sharing apps fail, publishers will move on to some other obnoxious, clueless, desperate tactic.” (SF Weekly)
* James Wolcott on the comedowns of Oprah, Olbermann, Conan, Cowell and others. (Vanity Fair)
Re: The new class of Knight-Wallace Fellows at UMich: I noticed that one recipient works for the Bend (OR) Bulletin, as does one of the judges, who’s that paper’s editor. Surely he recused himself, but it would seem to merit clarification.