Stephen Colbert And The DeMint Retirement

WATCH: Remembering Roger Ebert

Legendary film critic Roger Ebert died on Thursday at the age of 70. Here’s a look back at Ebert’s storied career.

Congress Opens Pandora’s Box Regulating Internet Radio

The Washington Post profiled Tim Westergren, the founder of Pandora today. The piece touches on the new fault lines springing up over Internet radio and the music industry. As author Manuel Roig-Ferrara describes:

Internet radio pays artists exponentially more for each song played than satellite and cable radio — services such as SiriusXM, Music Choice and Muzak. Pandora has long sought to alter that imbalance. Westergren wants Congress to lower the amount Pandora pays — arguing that the reduction would leave more money to innovate and expand its business. Ultimately artists would benefit from the increased exposure, especially the vast number of performers who don’t get airtime on AM or FM stations, he argues. They might even someday create a “musician’s middle-class,” he argues.

A coalition of performers and record companies is trying to block Pandora’s plan, accusing Westergren of “double talk” and “dishonesty,” and of greedily hurting artists by trying to drastically cut the compensation they receive.

WATCH: Fox News Host Firing of Rutgers Coach A Result of the ‘Wussification of American Men’

Fox News’ Eric Bolling, co-host of The Five, called out Rutgers University for firing men’s basketball coach Mike Rice as just another example of the “wussification of American men.” Although Bolling was not defending the actions of the coach, who was seen physically and verbally abusing players in a video released to ESPN this week,  he said, “Our culture is in decline, but this is an example of our culture in free fall and I’m saying this because he got fired, not because of what he did.”

President Obama Doesn’t Watch Cable News, He Reads Grantland

In Politico Playbook today, highlights were provided of a conversation between White House Senior Advisor Dan Pfeiffer and Politico’s Mike Allen Wednesday at the Mayflower Hotel in Washington. The conversation focused around various inane subjects. After all, when you get the chance to ask a senior White House staffer any question in the world, you need to ask about Bob Woodward. But while it was light on substance, it did reveal something important about President Obama’s reading habits—he almost certainly doesn’t bother with publications like Politico. Instead, he prefers a writer who runs a website that features long form stories about sports.

According to Pfeiffer, “his boss stopped watching a lot of cable TV shortly after he started running for president: ‘It will drive you insane if you’re president, sort of be caught up in the minute-to-minute chatter.’” But, the president somehow is able to govern the country without knowing “who won the morning.” Instead, he’s a big fan of ESPN’s Bill Simmons, the Editor-in-Chief of Grantland.com.