The sixth time I saw the video of Dr. Sanjay Gupta helping a baby in Haiti I had enough. Reporters, particularly those trained as doctors, have found themselves in situations where they’ve been able to help earthquake victims. But it’s easy for the networks to step over the line and turn a good deed into a tacky self-promotion opportunity. In the Washington Post today there’s an interesting look at the blurry lines for reporters who double as doctors.

TV is going through a sexual revolution says USA Today this morning. The paper lines up a slew of examples of shows that are changing their orbit to involve more sex or new ones, like Starz’ “Spartacus: Blood and Sand,” which seem to have pretty much one thing on their mind.

There’s a great headline in today’s New York Times: “If Your Kids are Awake, They’re Probably Online.” A new study has found that children ages 8 to 18 spend an average of 7 and a half hours online during the course of the day. And since they’re all multitasking, that adds up to 11 hours of exposure to media content.

The New York Daily News asks a question about Lady Gaga that I’ve often wondered myself: How did she emerge so quickly to become such an “unstoppable force” in music? The paper says it was a confluence of many factors, including the fact that the type of electronic dance music Gaga prefers to make “was out of fashion long enough to make it seem new.”

Republican Scott Brown won the late Ted Kennedy’s Senate seat yesterday reports the Boston Herald this morning. The race was close but in the end it was “frustration with the status quo” that turned many Independents, Republicans and even some Democrats into Brown supporters says the Boston Globe. Brown gained most of his momentum in places outside Boston. The Cape Cod News says he took 11 out of 15 of the Cape’s towns.  And the Worcester Telegram and Gazette focuses its coverage on the ramifications of Brown’s win on the health care reform package winding its way through Congress. Adam Nagourney of the New York Times writes that Brown’s victory was more than just a win, it “shocked and arguably humiliated the White House and the Democratic Party establishment.”

I guess this would make praising the lord and passing the ammunition a more seamless process: A gun company is being investigated by officials after online photos showed that they added Bible passages to the sights of their weapons, many of which were used by US soldiers in Iraq and Afghanistan says the Detroit News.

Long hair is forbidden but a Princess Leia updo is okay? The Dallas Morning News has the latest on the Texas kindergartner who was kicked out of school because his hair was considered too long for a boy. His mother’s solution was to fold his shoulder-length hair into two French braids.

Snacking “never ends” for American kids, reports the New York Times. A nutritionist says there are many more opportunities to snack and children have come to expect it. And statistics show when the number of snacks rises, the likelihood of eating three proper meals declines.

America has been invaded writes Jane Black of the Washington Post, by kimchi. Black affectionately waxes on about what she calls “cabbage crack” before tracing the condiment’s popularity from Korea (where the government has a department dedicated to kimchi promotion) to the waves of Korean immigrants who came to this country in the 1970s and 80s.

The next handheld device you buy may weigh two tons and come with leather interiors. The Wall Street Journal says automakers are using the “technology created to power games, mobile phones and computer displays” and employing it to make virtual dashboards.

How heavy is your handbag? The Post has been asking New York women to weigh their bags. Six to seven pounds seems pretty common. One woman was packing a 10-pound purse. The message to bag designers is make sure you’re providing products that can accommodate all the stuff people want to carry.

Octomom Nadya Suleman is back in the news and this time she’s making headlines for her “bikini body.” The New York Daily News reprints photos from Star Magazine’s exclusive interview with the mother of 14.

Madonna is playing a new role: sexy housewife. The queen of pop is the focus of Dolce & Gabbana’s latest ad campaign and her poses are decidedly domestic says the UK’s Daily Mail. The paper notes that despite having four children of her own, “it’s unlikely Madonna regularly performs housewife duties in real-life due to her army of staff.”

We’ve passed January’s midway point but we still have lots of cold weather on the horizon. The San Jose Mercury News suggests having an indoor tiki party to beat the winter weather and says there’s only one rule to remember: “the more kitschy, the better.”

The sixth time I saw the video of Dr. Sanjay Gupta helping a baby in Haiti I had enough. Reporters, particularly those trained as doctors, have found themselves in situations where they’ve been able to help earthquake victims. But it’s easy for the networks to step over the line and turn a good deed into a tacky self-promotion opportunity. In the Washington Post today there’s an interesting look at the blurry lines for reporters who double as doctors.

There’s a nice profile of an Afghanistan man serving in the US military in today’s LA Times. The 25-year-old interpreter can’t even visit his own family, who live less than five miles away, because of “danger to himself, his family and the mission.”

There’s a great headline in today’s New York Times: “If Your Kids are Awake, They’re Probably Online.” A new study has found that children ages 8 to 18 spend an average of 7 and a half hours online during the course of the day. And since they’re all multitasking, that adds up to 11 hours of exposure to media content.

Republican Scott Brown won the late Ted Kennedy’s Senate seat yesterday reports the Boston Herald this morning. The race was close but in the end it was “frustration with the status quo” that turned many Independents, Republicans and even some Democrats into Brown supporters says the Boston Globe. Brown gained most of his momentum in places outside Boston. The Cape Cod News says he took 11 out of 15 of the Cape’s towns.  And the Worcester Telegram and Gazette focuses its coverage on the ramifications of Brown’s win on the health care reform package winding its way through Congress. Adam Nagourney of the New York Times writes that Brown’s victory was more than just a win, it “shocked and arguably humiliated the White House and the Democratic Party establishment.”

How heavy is your handbag? The Post has been asking New York women to weigh their bags. Six to seven pounds seems pretty common. One woman was packing a 10-pound purse. The message to bag designers is make sure you’re providing products that can accommodate all the stuff people want to carry.

I guess when you get older hair pulling just isn’t as effective. A Michigan woman was arraigned yesterday on charges that she bit off a significant portion, about one-third, of her sister’s nose says the Jackson Citizen Patriot.