Just give NYT a Pulitzer for this theater correction (hypervocal.com)

* Earlier: The story behind the best NYT correction ever (JimRomenesko.com)

“I bid you a very heartfelt goodnight” were Johnny Carson’s final words on his last show 20 years ago tonight, notes Bill Lucey. Carson did 4,531 shows and interviewed about 24,000 guests in his 30 years as “Tonight Show” host.

The New York Times’s Bernard Weinraub covered Carson’s final show:

As a parting shot, Mr. Carson ribbed not only General Electric, the owner of NBC, but Vice President Dan Quayle, a favorite target, as well.

“I want to thank Dan Quayle for making my final week so fruitful,” Mr. Carson said. He added that now that he was leaving the show, “I’m going to join the cast of ‘Murphy Brown’ and become a surrogate father to that kid.”

* 20 years ago Johnny Carson bids a heartfelt goodnight (Bill Lucey)
* Fade out for Johnny Carson, his dignity and privacy intact (NYT)
* June 1, 1992: Dan Quayle vs. Murphy Brown (Time)

What Fox News chief Roger Ailes said at Ohio University on Monday, according to tweets from journalist and media lawyer Jonathan W. Peters:

One thing that qualifies me to run a journalism organization is the fact that I don’t have a journalism degree.

I don’t know if Pres Obama was smart in school. Haven’t seen his transcripts. (Question) No, Fox is not trying to get his transcripts.

Media Matters writes all of the primetime programming for MSNBC. All of it. That’s what a recently published book says.

The first thing I’d change about America would be requiring Congresspeople to follow the same laws we do. They get lots of freebies.

The Internet is an interesting thing, and it will keep rolling out, and eventually convergence will come. I’m watching it.

Jon Stewart is a comedian. He wouldn’t do well without Fox. And he basically has admitted to me, in a bar, that he’s a socialist.

One thing about liberals is they believe they’re always right. Fox tries to fill a different niche: providing alternative viewpoints.

I’ve killed one story, when Dean was running for president. His kid got arrested, and I said we shouldn’t run it. There was no point.

MSNBC is out of the news business. Brian Williams, a sincere newsman, wouldn’t want to be caught dead over there.

I would love for the AP to go back to being a neutral news source. But it slants stories, slants headlines. It tips to the left.

The New York Times is a cesspool of bias.

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