• Barack Obama will appear on the cover of Time for the seventh time this year. [Drudge]
  • National Enquirer editor David Perel would prefer it if you didn't refer to his tabloid as "icky". [HuffPo]
  • Rachel Maddow's agent may have shopped her to Fox News before concluding a deal with MSNBC. [Jossip]
  • Many of the bloggers who didn't get passes into the DNC will be blogging from the Big Tent a few blocks away. [MediaShift]
  • Lifetime is moving ahead with its plans for Blonde Charity Mafia, a series about three D.C. socialites. [Variety]
  • Ratings are up for Fox News. [THR]
  • The New York Times has turned "tabloid-y," according to Anthony Weiner. [NYO]