New overnight and updates on developing stories:
- Roger Ailes was “livid” that Sarah Palin announced her decision not to run for president on talk radio, “robbing Fox News of an exclusive and a possible ratings bonanza,” reports Gabriel Sherman. (New York magazine)
- How many questions will each candidate get during tonight’s GOP debate? Networks usually keep count backstage, though “a network might naturally want to spend more time with a front-runner.” (AP)
- New York journalists have joined together to complain about the city’s treatment of media at the Occupy Wall Street protests. A dozen news organizations, including the AP and The New York Times, sent a letter to the chief NYPD spokesman that said, “The police actions of last week have been more hostile to the press than any other event in recent memory.” The New York Press Club also created a coalition to monitor the NYPD‘s media relations. “Covering New York can be a contact sport,” writes Michael Powell. (AP/Observer/New York Times)
- In testimony Monday before the British Parliament, actor Hugh Grant accused The Mail on Sunday of engaging in phone hacking to break news about him. The Mail reveals its source of those stories and calls Grant’s accusations “mendacious smears driven by his hatred of the media.” (The Independent/Daily Mail)
- Media give thanks for turkey headlines (Politico)
