Conservative talk show host Glenn Beck's contract with Fox News is up at the end of December, and David Carr reports that it might not be renewed:

Fox News has a super-exciting article today: "Exclusive: NASA Scientist claims Evidence of Alien Life on Meteorite." OMG, aliens exist! Except this NASA scientist has been claiming to have evidence of alien life on meteorites for years.

Fox News recently reported on a highly scientific study that found that men who stared at breasts freely were healthier overall than those who showed restraint. So they went ahead and compiled a montage of large breasts... for your health.

New York Times editor Bill Keller spoke in front of the New York Press Club last night in Manhattan. In addition to all of the talk about journalism and the future of the paper and various and sundry dry matters like that (including an unsatisfactory rehashing of the Raymond Davis debacle that gave no indication that Keller had any second thoughts about the way he handled the story), did he get a chance to send a zinger towards Rupert Murdoch and Fox News?

You know how the GOP—and Fox News pundits, especially—is arguing that teachers in Wisconsin are overpaid/need to make concessions? What did those same people think/say about corrupt Wall Street bankers? Tonight, Jon Stewart gave us an answer.

It's all happening, people. Newt Gingrich, a politician from the 1990s, is officially running for president! No wait, he's just forming an official presidential exploratory committee! No wait, he's just officially "exploring" a presidential bid! Yes, that last one. That's what Newt Gingrich announced he is doing today.

Fox News' Bret Baier told viewers late this morning that the network has suspended its "contributor arrangements" with Newt Gingrich and Rick Santorum for 60 days while they decide on their possible presidential bids. It's just "Fox policy," and the "suspensions will be lifted on May 1 if they notify the network by then that they are not planning to run."

Fox News reporter Mike Tobin went on Bill O'Reilly's program Monday night to talk about the evil, violent union thugs who beat everyone up all the time. This is the same Mike Tobin who claims he was "hit" by protesters inside the Wisconsin Capitol a few days ago, which the magic of the Internet has since shown to be a questionable assertion. Still, Tobin sticks to his argument: Unions = Endless violence, everywhere. Bill O'Reilly, for his part, wonders "who's behind the chanting." Perhaps the Muslims? That's our guess.

On tonight's Daily Show, Jon Stewart took a break from satirizing the day-to-day coverage on Fox News in order to take on another, unexpected target: CNN. Specifically, Stewart lambasted the network's increasingly random, trivial take on the day's news.

Last week the Times revealed that insane Fox News boss Roger Ailes allegedly urged former News Corp. employee Judith Regan to lie to federal investigators in 2006 about her affair with Ailes' buddy Bernard Kerik, then trying to become secretary of Homeland Security. Is Ailes about to be indicted for this?

Think back five long years ago, when hot shot publisher-to-the-stars Judith Regan was embroiled in a huge scandal that was the talk of the media world: after HarperCollins fired her, Regan sued them. In her suit, she alleged that a mystery News Corp executive had told her to lie to federal investigators who were vetting former NYPD chief Bernie Kerik—a man that Regan slept with.

In your tragic Wednesday media column: TBD is eviscerated, a new WaPo ombudsman, media tweet beef, a bunch of HuffPo millionaires, Harper's Magazine is a case study of woe, and Fox News is your most valuable cable network without balls.

So a Fox Business Network reporter went to say "hi" to the protester commies filling the Wisconsin State Capitol today, and you will not believe what happened! The uncivil crowd just chanted "Fox Lies! Fox Lies!" over and over. Why so rude? They must have a problem with the commission of brilliant investigative journalism. Who knows what goes on in the minds of these union thugs, really.

Tonight, Jon Stewart returned from vacation with a segment about the revolution in Egypt—or, more specifically, the media's reaction to it. From those trying to credit Twitter, to Fox News' post-revolution fear-mongering, and more, nobody was safe.

Paranoid, vindictive, and possibly insane Fox News boss Roger Ailes has been sitting for interview with every elitist pinko rag in America lately. Now, the bizarre, crowning achievement: New York magazine's Gabriel Sherman is writing an entire book on Fox News, centering on Roger Ailes. The "insidery" media "story behind the story" here is, Gabriel Sherman is not the type one would naturally consider to be a friend of Fox News. Given Ailes' insatiable desire to shoot his mouth off with self-justificatory diatribes, this should be interesting.

Fox News put together a focus group of likely Iowa Republican caucus-goers to watch President Obama's pre-Super Bowl interview with Bill O'Reilly and gauge their reactions. So why were the reactions so negative when he was giving fairly boilerplate responses to O'Reilly's questions about the Egyptian uprising and any potential threats posed by the Muslim Brotherhood?

Bill O'Reilly interviewed Obama on Fox News a few minutes ago. The discussion ranged from football, to football, to football, to football. They even talked a little about football. No, actually, they talked about health care, too.

This week, news that Bill O'Reilly had issued a challenge to atheists to explain how the moon got here—after being told that it, not God, controls the tides—was laughed at by many. Tonight, Stephen Colbert joined the chorus.

Remember how Bill O'Reilly used tidal phenomena to definitively establish the existence of God? And how you laughed at him because the moon, and not God, actually does that? He's got a question for you: How'd the moon get there?

In your undesirable Wednesday media column: NPR needs another Ellen Weiss, blogs are dead or possibly thriving, the Newsweek-Daily Beast merger is going about as well as expected, and Fox News establishes its priorities.