Who watches Media Watch? More than listen to Jones. Media Watch last night played a clip from an interview with Sydney radio host Alan Jones last week who disparagingly asked “who watches Media Watch?” and generally bagged the program. Let’s go to the numbers …

Last night, 584,000 people watched Media Watch in the five metro markets. In Sydney, according to radio ratings survey four, a cumulative 501,000 people listened to Alan Jones on his 2GB breakfast shift, and the average daily audience was 172,000. Media Watch‘s Sydney audience last night was 202,000. So the answer to Jones’s sledging question is: more people watch Media Watch than listen to Alan Jones, especially in Sydney! — Glenn Dyer

Front page of the day. Today’s Washington Post front page displays the knife-edge politics that has surrounded the US debt ceiling crisis:

The Department of Corrections. The Chicago Tribune was forced to apologise on Saturday when its film columnist got a Godfather reference wrong. Fans of the cult trilogy may have demanded a horses head in his bed for the error …

News asked about email deletion: IT firm

“Rupert Murdoch’s British paper publisher, which is at the centre of the phone-hacking scandal, asked the Indian company managing its IT systems about deleting emails nine times in 15 months, the group said Monday.” — SBS

BBC asks Nato to investigate reporter’s death

“The BBC has asked Nato to investigate the death of one of its journalists in Afghanistan after reports suggested foreign forces could have been involved.” — The Guardian

NT govt to investigate Sunday Night interview

“The Northern Territory Department of Justice says it is investigating how Sunday Night journalist Rahni Sadler was able to broadcast an interview with the killer of British backpacker Peter Falconio.” — TV Tonight

A rift divides members of journalism groups

“As the National Association of Black Journalists opens its annual conference in Philadelphia on Wednesday, a topic of conversation is likely to be its recent efforts to get more black anchors on prime-time news programs. ” — The New York Times

Most major newspaper editors don’t even use Twitter

“I don’t even like Twitter, but everybody is on it these days, and you’d imagine that the editor of one America’s biggest newspapers would have a fairly large following on this important new media platform, correct? Well…” — Gawker

Apple blocks rival’s tablet from entering Aust

“Apple escalated a patent dispute against Samsung Electronics and won an agreement that the South Korean company won’t sell the newest version of its tablet computer in Australia until a lawsuit is resolved.” — The Age