We obviously spoke too soon when calling video tech jobs the object of the online video gold rush. Content deals are where it's at. Big fish like Viacom are going to Joost, while singing their own praises in terms of pushing internal video. Joost in turn is pursuing moderate players like JumpTV. Not to be outdone, Google has signed up the BBC for Youtube, even while it pursues a host of littler deals (and we enjoy how the New York Times likens the NBA to a "smaller media company"). So if you have some video content lying around that no one is bothering to pirate anyway, why not cash in with a little Youtube money? It's a seller's market, at least for the next 30 days or so.

• Bonnie Fuller is allegedly "reaching out to Hachette Filipacchi and to TMZ.com." There are the usual denials all around, but we think if anyone can revive Shock, it's Bonnie "Bon Temps" Fuller. [NYP]
  

• What do all these kids have in common? They're being exploited by a Murdoch-owned paper to boost sales in the wake of that whole racist "Big Brother" episode. [Guardian]
  

• Broad and Burkle talk to Tribune directors, who may not sell the company after all. Great, that's six months of our lives wasted. [LAT]
  

• The axe falls today at Time Inc. Send your memos and stories here and we'll share them with the world. [NYP]
  

• Ann Moore is about to fire about 150 of Time's people of the year. [NYP]
  

• NYT says "[Redacted], you [redacted] [redacted] of the CIA. Go [redacted] a up your [redacted] [redacted] [redacted] until it [redacted]." Ouch. [NYT]
  

We want to congratulate the headline writer on this BBC article about a recent study showing that circumcision reduces the rate of HIV infection in heterosexual males by 50%: it must have been the highlight of this editor's month to go with "Male circumcision 'cuts' HIV risk." As for the report, experts sound a note of caution:

An intrepid tipster sent us a link to a BBC article this morning about the very real problem that AIDS is spreading in India because of an unually high incidence of condom breakage and slippage. The cause? Well, according to a recent study,

• A group of Columbia journalism students allegedly cheated on an ethics exam. There go those cushy Voice gigs. [Radar]
  

• Arthur Sulzberger may try to take the New York Times private rather than see it fall into the hands of Hank Greenberg or Jack Welch. [BW]
  

• Supreme Court allows federal prosecutors to look at Judy Miller's phone records. Why do we even bother with a First Amendment? [NYT]
  

• Jeff Zucker may take over for Bob Wright as head of NBC by the end of the year. Honestly, you get the feeling that Zucker could rip the head off a transgendered prostitute and skullfuck it in the middle of a board meeting and he'd still get promoted. [NYP]
  

• Washington Post shrinking. Yes, yes, "tightening up the paper's news hole," is a funny phrase. [WaPo
  

Tomorrow's launch of the English-language Al Jazeera International news channel will present the world with a strange broadcasting animal. Funded by the Emir of Qatar, the channel will likely tone down the graphic and/or sensational nature of its Arabic-language parent, but it will still be free from commercial sponsorship or advertiser concerns. There will actually be four bureaus — one in the channel's home city of Doha, Qatar (studio pictured), plus outposts in London, Washington DC, and Kuala Lumpur. The Emir's deep pockets sent recruiters on a shopping spree for correspondents worldwide, netting a few overseas-famous names. The BBC is said to be defensively realigning in response to Al Jazeera's nabbing of "Scud Stud" Rageh Omaar and Sir David Frost, among others; Frost will inaugurate his show Wednesday by interviewing British PM Tony Blair. Various other Brits came aboard as well, including a few who are apparently a bit too fond of the sauce for the Emir's liking.

Madona has a heart of gold. If majority of people can keep house pets & treat them like family members, then what's wrong adopting Malawian boy, David Banda.

• Newspaper circulation declined again. One or two papers actually did okay, but we can't quite remember which ones. [NYT]
  

BBC News reports on Google being called before British Parliament to discuss online its policy on online copyrights in leiu of the still pending acquisition of youTube. Google Europe vice-president Nikesh Arora told MPs his company would not tolerate copyright violations.

Words in BBC headline ("Google and Apple 'in video talks'"): 6
Words the BBC quotes from Google VP Marissa Mayer to support headline ("engaged in talks"): 3
Total words in article, including photo caption: 250
Words pulled out of BBC's ass: 247

Yet more UK terror-mongering. Glaswegian chef Gordon Ramsay churns out popular TV shows (Hell's Kitchen excepted) with about the same frequency as his instantly popular restaurants. Yesterday's episode of his cooking show The F-Word featured a new plateau, even for Ramsay's confrontational style — the on-camera slaughter and butchering of two pigs he'd been fattening up throughout the series. This was always meant to be the pigs' destiny; Ramsay made a characteristically black joke by naming them Trinny and Susannah, after his hated enemies Trinny Woodall and Susannah Constantine, hosts of fashiony program What Not to Wear. Trading metaphorical reality-show carnage for actual carnage, Trinny and Susannah (the pigs) are