• Thursday’s numbers: O’Reilly-The Five-Baier 1-2-3.
• Red Eye video: What constitutes ‘the perfect tweet’?
• CNN fires editor for plagiarism (via Brian Stelter).
• Arwa Damon honored.  Gay: A CNN tradition dies.
• Scalia: Gravity in the face of MSNBC condescension.
• Lowry: The System is powerful advocacy journalism.
• NowThis preps for MSNBC shorts. Going All In on Kansas.
• Wemple: Outnumbered rocks NY Times debate; the video.

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