The good news: This may be the funniest Thursday since Jerry Seinfeld abandoned us, more than a decade ago.

The also-good news: There's an excellent -- and non-funny -- CNN documentary that same night. I'll include a story about it in a moment.

And for people in the Lansing, Mich., area, the best news: The East Lansing Film Festival has started; please read my previous blog. Now about the other two:

As the Katrina anniversary nears, TV's
coverage keeps growing – and then growing some more.

I sent a preview story – included
here – which some papers have already run. During that time:

The TV news world may be getting sillier, but CNN keeps making strong, solid documentaries.

A prime example is "Toxic Towns" on Saturday, the first of a string of documentaries this month. Here's the story I sent to papers:

For one day, viewers can forget current troubles and enjoy a long-ago triumph. Today (Monday, July 20), TV celebrates the first anniversary of man's walk on the moon. That includes:

-- Wolf Blitzer's "Situation Room," at 4 p.m. ET on CNN. At 4:17 p.m. -- precisely 40 years after the landing -- Blitzer plans to talk to Buzz Aldrin, who was the second man (after Neil Armstrong) to step out of the lunar module that day and walk the moon.