Media Bubble: Rule, Britannia. Or Don't.
• Once ruled the world, now can't influence a nightly newscast: ABC ignores British request not to broadcast images of terrorists' unexploded bombs. [NYT]
• Pakistan arrests a suspect in murder of WSJ reporter Daniel Pearl. [Reuters]
• Inc. editor John Koten will be EIC and CEO of both that mag and Fast Company, both recently purchased by Joe Mansueto. And he wants to launch two more mags within the year. [Mediaweek and Folio:]
• OK! mag chief says he'll spend up to $100M to make OK! America a success. [NYP]
• Fox News's Shepard Smith, denying he's a Republican, says "even his girlfriend doesn't know his views." Among other things she doesn't know. [TVNewser]