· Might this be the saddest chat transcript ever? [USA Today]
· FoxNews is conservative, Timothy Noah is excitable [Slate]
· The former King of Cambodia's blog is totally not as funny as it used to be [CNN]

· Columbia Journalism Review to start showing up in Google searches for "Bai Ling Naked" [CJR]
· Laid-off Friendster employees to have an easier time finding work than laid-off Times employees [Corante]
· Clear Channel to totally take itself down [StayFree]

· What does the future of magazines look like? Much like the present, but in space and with more ads for housework-handling robots. Mustaches still popular among professors of journalism. [Online Journalism Review]
· If you ask me, Matt Taibbi and Russ Smith are nearing the part of the romantic comedy where the barbed insults start masking growing attraction. [NYPress]
· Program[me]s about "sex with animals" given the all-clear. It may be — nay, is — time to move to England. [Guardian, reg. req'd]

· Journalists love them some objectivity. The public doesn't so much. What a crazy odd couple! [E&P]

· What's the matter with the media? Digital something or other. The cure? Let women-folk watch soaps at work. [WSJ]

· MSN signs deal with Mark The Contender Burnett; his new show (called Rockstar — we can only imagine its premise) will soon infect your broadband connection. [AdAge]
· Former New York Post copy editor/current blogger Dawn Eden is "moving on up" at The Daily News. Congrats, Dawn. We think. [The Politicker]
· UPN throws Chris Rock s Everybody Hates Chris Rock show to Thursday night. Why? Because Joey sucks — pay attention! [NYDN]

·Is print dying? Yes? No? Maybe? The sooner the better? The Wall Street Journal weighs in. [WSJ via Romenesko]
·Finally! We can waste money on eBay without leaving the sofa. [Mediaweek]
·Plimpton prot g Brigid Hughes (aka, the editor who got sacked from The Paris Review a couple months back) plans to start new literary magazine, A Public Space. Apparently Hughes enjoys something called "fiction" and "poetry." [ CBC via Media Bistro]

· A new book argues that too much Internets and TV stifles emotional maturity. Immature punchline TK. [WaPo via I Want Media]
· CBS looks to fill the void left by Everybody Loves Raymond, adding three humorous sitcoms and five dramas . Void, btw, is a euphemism for brain. [NYT]
· The void expands, vacuously sucking up Wednesday night. CBS cancels 60 Minutes II. [Reuters]
· Oh yeah, did we mention there's only 5 hours left to get ready for the Radar Launch Parties? [Gawker, obviously] -KEW

·Time Warner honcho Richard Parsons thinks about spinning off AOL as a separate stock because it sucks. Uh, we mean, because it's part of his "portal" strategy. [CNN]

· Desperate for readers who don't belong to the AARP, newspapers have begun experimenting with this podcasting thing the kids are so crazy about. [WSJ]
· The kids like the free dailies, but when it comes time to pay for the real thing, they can't be found. Probably off listening to podcasts or something. [Business 2.0]
· NYT to remake its Business section, will expand its coverage of consumer gadgets, blogs and venture capital, among the hottest subjects in financial news. Another hot subject? Podcasts. Maybe they should take a look at that. [Reuters]
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· Bill O'Reilly misrepresents someone's position. RELATED: This Ratzinger guy turns out to be Catholic. [Houston Chronicle]
· Robert Novak punks out on a debate. On the other hand, would you want to spend an hour in the same room as Eric Alterman? [Altercation]
· Have we finally discovered an explanation for Steve Dunleavy's behavior? [BBC (yes, that was the joke)]
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· European and Asian editions of The Wall Street Journal to turn tabloid. Stateside TK, too? "Headless Investor in Bottomless Market!" "Greenspan to Interest Rates: Drop Dead!" Oh, such fun. [NYT]
· After seven months of consideration, a 19-member New York Times panel presents plan to increase credibility: Fewer anonymous sources, clearer distinction between news and opinion, andwait for itfewer factual errors. After one day of consideration, our one-member panel says: Duh. [ NYT]
· At a conference in Nashville, bloggers learn "how to access and analyze government statistics." At a bar in New York, cooler bloggers point and laugh. [AP via CNN]
· The Times once again discovers Gawker Media, er, group. (It's not an empire, insists the emperor.) Groundbreaking observations: More traffic is good! Published authors flack themselves! People selling ads use crazy ad-world terminology! [NYT] JO

· The New York Post is sticking with its online registration plans, a spokeswoman tell one charming and handsome reporter. [E&P]

· Pre-Columbian Timesman Tom Friedman travels the country meeting grandmothers who get their news from Jon Stewart. Our grandmother wouldn't be able to get past him dropping "Liebowitz" as his last name. [NYT]

· Maybe you've heard: Arianna Huffington is launching a group blog. The Huffington Post debuts Monday [Newsweek.com]

· Casual encounters, plus the latest Iraq news: Craigslist founder Craig Newmark wants to add journalism. [AP via E&P]

· The Birth of a Nation.com: Lovable lefties finally launch the new site. [TheNation.com]

· Radar doesn't do likewise. [RadarMagazine.com] —JO

· Press release promises brand-new website for The Nation today; by 5:30 p.m., nothing new shows up on site. Of course, to paraphrase Will Rogers, if they wanted to be organized, they'd be Republicans. [TheNation.com]
· PW spends 700-odd words on what not to wear at Book Expo. We'll make it easy: Cords, horn-rims, blazer, and you're golden. [Publishers Weekly]
· The New York Times starts, ever so gently, to coax some design changes into its website. Just relax, the paper tells its site, we know you'll like it. [E&P]
· NYDN EIC Michael Cooke, contrary to suggestion, does not have a shoe fetish. "Of course not," gloats the Post's Col Allan. "Now Dunleavy, there's a man with a real shoe fetish." [Chicago Reader]
· Denton's secret plans are finally revealed! He'll buy the Times Co. in 2010. Obviously. [Boston Globe] JO

· Where does the time go? Two years ago today, Jayson Blair resigned from The New York Times. (And two years ago tomorrow, Seth Mnookin started hoarding all Newsweek's reporter's notebooks.) [Romenesko]
· New York hates Brooklyn? So what. The Chicago Tribune just lurves the borough (or at least a hackneyed, outdated caricature of it). [Chicago Tribune]
· MSNBC's newsreader isn't the only reporter Don Imus likes to beat up on. [E&P]
· Comparing the new Kojak to the old Kojak reminds us thatwell, we have no idea. That Ed Koch isn't mayor any more? Lee Siegel always goes way over our heads. [TNR] JO

· Thanks to Jeff Zucker's freakout, a cabal of Harvard grads now rule the Big 3 morning news shows. (Fox & Friends suspected to be Ivy-free.) [USAT via Romenesko]
· A&E plans to follow up hits Growing up Gotti and Dog the Bounty Hunter with a slate of other reality TV knockoffs. One potential gem: Spying On Myself, in which participants go undercover to find out what their friends really think of them. [Mediaweek]
· Time Warner and Comcast agree to buy bankrupt Adelphia for $17.6 billion. We regret to inform you that your cable bill just jumped 15%. [Bloomberg]
· E&P reporter to newspaper execs: "Blogs? Forget them." Can we get an amen? [E&P]

· The Times thanks Terri Schiavo for record high page views in March; no word yet on feeding-tube free April. [mediaweek]
· Page Six uses Jane Fonda threesomes as excuse to abuse Daily News; calls Hud Morgan a "lackey," perhaps in response to Hud recently calling Page Six "gangsters." [Page Six]
· Martha Stewart inks deal with Sirius Satellite Radio, giving listeners another reason to choose XM. [NYT]
· Jack Shafer on Jim Romenesko; Romenesko links to himself via Shafer in sidebar. [Slate]

· Remember 'zines? (We don't either.) Anyway, 'zines are so old, they've been relegated to museums. Do you think in ten years blogs will be too? (We don't either.) [Design Center]
· The Los Angeles Times profiles bOING bOING's Xeni Jardin, "a very specific sort of rising star, the type born of the 21st century whose celebrity is fluid and self-made she's a journalist, a blogger, a TV personality, an artist and an entrepreneur." [Xeni.net, via Boing Boing]
· What's not to love about Christopher Hitchens? A lot, apparently: preening, truculence, namedropping, sophistry, perversity. Also, his nasty chest pelt. Hitch your shirt button, Chris! [n+one]
· Deep thoughts on Arrested Developments symbolic castration anxiety. [NYM]

· Seismic change in the culture heralded by... a New Yorker cartoon? [LA Mag]
· Poor conservative bloggers: sometimes those awesome forged memos are real. [Salon]
· You knew it had to happen sooner or later: Jeff Gannon and Ana Marie Cox go at it on cable. We can think of at least one fixation these two share. [Wonkette]
· Report: Men Spend More on Video Games Than Music; Nothing on Foreplay. [Reuters, via I Want Media]

· 60 Minutes II will probably hang its Peabody Award on the CBS communal fridge with a note to Les Moonves: 'Cancel what?' Jon Stewart to send his to his mother with a note reading "Still mad I never went to med school?" [PRNewsWire]
· Canadians: Can't live with 'em; Didn't really know you were livin' with 'em to begin with. [FishBowlNY]
· The Night of the Long Pies continues. The latest "victim": David "The Horra" Horowitz. (Maybe it was grown-up children of Black Panthers returning the shitty breakfasts he shoved down their throats three decades ago.) It's only a matter of time before Jonah Goldberg gets it in the piehole. [Wonkette]
· What if the Pope's funeral had been overseen by conceptual artists? [Greg.org]