FINAL CUTS: Sarah Palin gets big ratings; Ex-homeless woman makes $100K blogging on Bieber

Here's our list of media items that managed to evade the full-on blog treatment:

• The premiere of "Sarah Palin's Alaska" produced record-breaking ratings for TLC. (The Ticket)

• MSNBC's Rachel Maddow admits Fox News-bashing is good for her ratings. (Harvard Crimson via Romenesko)

• Tina Brown's book about the Clintons is now on hold due to the Newsweek-Daily Beast merger. (NYT)

• The Associated Press has a new White House correspondent. (FishbowlDC)

• The Washington Post says it should have identified the co-writer of an op-ed suggesting President Obama should not run for re-election as a Bloomberg pollster. (Media Matters)

• NPR has hired an outside firm to investigate the firing of Juan Williams. (NPR)

• USA Today has five reporters covering Congress and 27 covering entertainment. (Gannett Blog)

• The Times of London is giving select readers free three-month access to it pay-walled website. (journalism.co.uk)

• A woman who used to be homeless now makes almost $100,000 a year writing about Justin Bieber for Examiner.com. (AdAge)

• Politico Pro's masthead is starting to take shape; the new subscription-based news service will debut in February. (Romenesko)

• CNBC has a new senior vice president of digital and mobile ad sales. (Inside Cable News)

• And lots of media moves lately! (Runnin' Scared)