Romenesko

The State
The State on Monday received nearly 600 pages documents -- e-mails and phone call records -- related to Gov. Mark Sanford's disappearance. (The e-mails were sent before it was clear where he was or what he was doing.) The paper reports:
* A Fox News correspondent wrote to Sanford's communications director, Joel Sawyer: "Having known the Governor for years and even worked with him when he would host radio shows for me -- I find this story and the media frenzy surrounding it to be absolutely ridiculous! Please give him my best."
* OpinionJournal.com associate editor Brendan Miniter, in an e-mail to Sawyer, called the WSJ’s first-day coverage bunk. "Someone at WSJ should be fired for today's story. Ridiculous."
* Stephen Colbert e-mailed Sawyer: "If the Governor is looking for a friendly place to make light of what I think is a small story that got blown out of scale, I would be happy to have him on."
* A Washington Times staffer wrote in an e-mail that "if you all want to speak on this publicly, you're welcome to Washington Times Radio. You know that you will be on friendly ground here!"
> WT editor: "Friendly" remark came from marketing side