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We recently wrote about News Corp.'s slightly odd decision to sue a political candidate, Robin Carnahan, who used a clip from Fox News (of Chris Wallace attacking Carnhan's opponent, Roy Blunt).

If the Sotomayor confirmation hearings have you glued to the TV this week – or you don’t have access to a TV at work and still want to follow along, you’ll be glad to know that C-Span has set up a live video stream plus live blogging.

Friday night’s 2009 Radio and TV Correspondents’ Dinner was a veritable nerdfest – in his headline speech, comedian and geek hero John Hodgman explored the difference between jocks and nerds, then advanced to the trickier issue of “nerds vs geeks”.