Chris Bowers of My DD and Matt Stoller of BOP News are blogger-credentialed at Live 8 in Philly. Chris has great photos here.

Go over to One.Org and sign the letter to President Bush asking him to help end poverty.

Live 8 - they want your voice, not your money. AOL is broadcasting all of the concerts live simultaneously for free. Watch here.

Say hello to Crawford's List, by journalist, author and tv commentator Craig Crawford. He's all over the Plame/Rove story, and says,

Newsweek is working on an 'It's Rove!' story and will probably break it tomorrow.

Craig's new book, Attacking the Messenger, is out, see the ad on the left side of TalkLeft.

Also say hello to NewsAmerica Now and Patriot Daily .

2   more days to Saturday, July 2 when Live 8 rocks the world to end poverty.

I did the blog round-up today on MSNBC's Connected Coast to Coast, focusing on protecting sources and blog magazines. Thanks to Ian of Political Teen for putting up the video and this list of the blogs that were featured.

On Time Magazine's decision to give up Reporter Matthew Cooper's notes:

• Balloon Juice - Time should support their sources and not give them up
• Instapundit - There should be no such privilege to journalists, journalists should be subject to the same laws normal citizens are
• The Moderate Voice - Will the information become public?
• David Corn - Time would have had to paid $1000 a day fine if they didn’t give up their sources.

On the Day the Bloggers Died (and became online magazines):

• Talk Left - Blogs becoming “Online Magazines”
• The Talent Show - Ended their days as a blogger
• Crooks and Liars - Changed to a new online-virtual magazine
• Also mentioned: Atrios and America Blog.

I'll be doing the segment again tomorrow, around 5:20 pm ET.

Eric Alterman has a new Nation column examining the disparate mainstream media coverage accorded to Senator Dick Durbin's Guantanamo comments and Karl Rove's liberal bashing comments.

And where were the mainstream media in all this? With just a few honorable exceptions they were passing along without prejudice Rove's slander and lies and the deliberate distortions of Durbin's words.

The Wall St. Journal credits Daily Kos readers for creating the buzz on the Downing Street memos (free link.)

In mid-May, three regular readers of Daily Kos, a liberal blog, published their own Web site to publicize the documents. According to its operators, Downingstreetmemo.com was created by a Silicon Valley Web-page designer, a Chicago college student and a Canadian citizen certain they had stumbled onto the smoking gun that could drag the Bush administration down.

They were joined later by three other Daily Kos readers, including Bob Fesmire, husband of the Silicon Valley Web designer. Mr. Fesmire, a marketing executive for an engineering business, said he returned from a business trip to find his wife, Gina, obsessed with the leaked British documents, so he read them. "I said, 'This is it -- this is what's going to crack this whole thing open,' " Mr. Fesmire recalled. He was equally struck by the lack of interest in the documents, even among liberals.

There's more so read the article. The Wall St. Journal deserves credit for making several of their main political articles available free each day--and keeping them online for free for 30 days.

Bono was on Meet the Press today to discuss the upcoming Live 8 efforts to end poverty in Africa. The transcript is here. A few highlights:

One billions dollars is all it would take to save a million lives from malaria, with bed nets, etc., $1 billion. Four billion dollars, you could change the world. From the United States, an extra commitment of $4 billion.....there's a tsunami happening every month in Africa, but it's an avoidable catastrophe. It is not a natural calamity.

On the issue of whether he and Bob Geldof are being used by Blair, Bush and others in power:

It's impossible not to know that tonight is evangelist Billy Graham's last sermon. I've never seen or read a Billy Graham sermon. I don't even know why they are called "crusades." But considering this description of his medical condition, it's impressive he's speaking in public at all these days.

Graham, 86, is suffering from fluid on the brain, prostate cancer and Parkinson's disease. He uses a walker due to a pelvic fracture and is largely confined to his home in Montreat, N.C.

Media Matters has the transcript of author Ed Klein's appearance on Al Franken's Air America radio show today, during which he disscussed his book, The Truth About Hillary. MM says:

Hosts Al Franken and Katherine Lanpher, and guest Joe Conason confronted author Edward Klein on the many factual errors, distortions, and misleading claims in his attack book on Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton (D-NY), The Truth About Hillary (Sentinel, 2005). On the June 24 edition of the Al Franken Show on Air America Radio, Klein acknowledged his falsehood in portraying the chronology of the reporting of Clinton's Jewish step-grandfather and her controversial meeting with Suha Arafat, first noted by Media Matters for America. He also admitted that he had never seen Clinton's chief of staff Melanne Verveer (whose name he misspelled in the book), although he described her appearance as "mannish-looking." But he refused to retract other false claims when confronted by Franken, Conason and Lanpher.

Tom Cruise had a "passionate" interview on the Today Show with Matt Lauer this morning. You can watch the video here (it starts at 7 min. 45 seconds.)

So what is it with Tom Cruise and drugs? First, in an interview with der Spiegel weeks ago, he claimed to be personally curing drug addicts through Scientology. Now he rants against anti-depressants and psychiatry - saying the first are just a mask and the second is a pseudo-science - and he's an expert in these areas.

Tom Cruise is actually doing us all a favor. He's doing more to drive people from Scientology than all the proselytizing against it ever could.

So who are you going to believe? The vast medical conspiracy or Tom Cruise and Scientology? I'll choose the former if I'm sick. Sorry, Tom.

Update: Roger Friedman has a good take on the Lauer-Cruise Today Show interview.

Crooks and Liars reports that a few liberal bloggers are screaming about Susan Estrich's column defending her position as a liberal commentator for Fox News. I'm firmly with Susan on this one.

I say whatever I want....I think it's particularly important to have a dialogue with people who aren't already members of the same choir - that's the way we will ultimately have to win elections.

I've done legal commenting on Fox News for eight years, mostly from Denver but many times at their New York studio. I've never been paid a dime by them, although I've asked a few times. I can underscore they never, ever tell you what to say and you can say whatever you want. Their producers are top notch. They are appreciative, professional and a pleasure to interact with. I may not share the views of their anchors, but on a personal level, I like every one of them.

I've never met Roger Ailes, so I don't have anything to say there, but I think the attacks on Susan are catty and misinformed. Susan is a law professor and expert on politics and feminist issues. I don't always agree with her either - I'm far to the left of her - but the attacks on her embarrass me. Liberals need to stop eating their own.

If you're a subscriber to the National Journal's Hotline, then you know they do a daily "blogometer" roundup of what's on the blogs. They also do interviews with bloggers a few times a week. Tuesday, they featured an interview with me. If you're not a subscriber, here's a portion of the interview.

BLOGGER SPOTLIGHT: ....Today the Blogometer talks to liberal legal blogger Jeralyn Merritt, founder and chief contributor to the widely-read blog TalkLeft.