The Media Learning Curve: Nov. 27-Dec. 4

So we're watching NBC's "Today" show, as we normally do to get the news about the latest NBA news and today's NHL games ... check out the scroll in the clip above ... and all of the sudden, Michael J. Fox's mom admits she's gay.

Maybe that explains no more Meredith Baxter Birney. Or why Meredith Viera didn't do the Q-and-A -- to avoid confusion over who was really admitting such things.

That's why I watch the "Today" show. Not for my Tiger Woods news.

That said, we learned a lot more about Tiger, etc., etc., Woods, etc., etc.... and whatever else fit into the school of hard knocks, media department:

== The Miami Herald's Dan LeBatard on how the media rules have changed (linked here) "The media used to exist at least in part to expose the wrong/illegal. But now we're more comfortable than ever uncovering the wrong/immoral."

== From Jason Whitlock, from FoxSports.net and the Kansas City Star, on how the media seems to relish going after Woods (linked here).

== How does bad news drive out good news? (linked here)

== How the Onion peels back the information on all this (linked here).

Meanwhile ...

== Why Dick Enberg will give up his NFL fall and winter (but not his Wimbledon) for a Padres' spring and summer (linked here) and why he says he still has "something on my fastball" (linked here)
== Your L.A. NFL TV schedule for Week 13, heavy on the Chargers now that this Toronto thing is finished (linked here).

== The 14th week of the college football season brings, to the L.A. TV market, another USC game (linked here).

== Scully's back, at least one more time (linked here) and check out this video clips to honor his 82nd birthday (linked here); meanwhile, Chip Caray's gone, finally (linked here).

== How the "new" NBC will fit into Comcast's ownership plans (linked here) and how the deal came together (linked here).

== People who once worked at the National Sports Daily still exist, and let us sit at their knee? (linked here)

== More cuts at the Washington Times (linked here)

== Stop being disorderly during ESPN "College GameDay" visits -- and that includes student journalists (linked here)

== Wanna see a picture of O.J. Simpson in the Buffalo Bills locker room at Shea Stadium in 1973 after he broke the NFL record for 2,000 rushing yards in a season? Did we mention he's naked? (linked here)

== And more on the passing of Mike Penner/Christine Daniels (linked here) along with the Times listing some of his best writing (linked here).