· Jim Windolf profiles MSNBC gossip Jeanette Walls, who seems to have survived the worst ever episode of MTV's True Life: My Parents Are Embarrassing. [VF]
· Peter Carlson has a crush on The Believer. [WaPo]
· Media Industry Newsletter reports on what magazine covers sold well in 2004 and which didn't. Funny, we can't fathom why New York's Joel Steinberg cover didn't fly off newsstands. [MIN, via I Want Media]
· Wolcott on Air America and The Atlantic. [James Wolcott]