Romenesko

WashingtonPost.com
"In cable, you only need an extra half-million or million viewers to produce a serious spike in the ratings, and that's why Anna Nicole Smith, nearly two weeks after her death, is still sucking up plenty of cable oxygen," Howard Kurtz tells chatters. "At least after the day of her unexpected death, Anna Nicole has not become a newspaper obsession. It's TV that is treating her as though she were Princess Di." ALSO: "I think the media have really been lazy in the knee-jerk reporting on Romney=Mormon=political problems," says WP's media critic.