Harvey Fights Back, CNN Loses Ground
♦ The battle over Project Runway rages on: Harvey Weinstein is now claiming that Bravo intentionally undermined the success of Season 5 by changing the show's airtime, running "mundane and unappealing" ads, and "revealing spoilers about future episodes." [THR]
♦ Barack Obama will appear on The Daily Show tomorrow night. [AP]
♦ The New York Times is not running out of money, say execs at the paper. [NYO]
♦ MSNBC moved into second place in the primetime cable news race, beating CNN for the month of October. [THR]
♦ The LA Times has laid off 75 employees. [E&P]
♦ The 100-year-old Christian Science Monitor will cease daily publication in April and become a weekly. [BW]
♦ Cable news personalities are doing their very best to suggest that John McCain still has a chance. [NYT]
♦ A long profile of NBC's Ben Silverman in Fortune. [CNNMoney]
♦ Michael Wolff seems to be having a bit of trouble understanding how Facebook works. [Valleywag]
♦ More troubles for Sumner Redstone. [NYP]
♦ Doubleday has laid off a number of staffers. [NYO, NYO]
♦ Mad Men ended its second season with much, much higher ratings. [THR]