Scott McNealy will resign as CEO of Sun Microsystems, according to a Forbes story reportedly in the works. But when a journalist (and tipster) called Sun, they'd heard no such thing.

Last time we checked in with Forbes media columnist James Brady — the Parade celeb-swaddler, Page Six creator, and longtime Murdoch factotum — he was, rather generously, praising Bonnie Fuller's "successful" stint at AMI and spinning the time Conde Nast fired her as Bonnie's own decision to leave. This week, prompted by a Romenesko link, we were curious to see what MPA chairman Jack Kilger had done to get Brady to swallow his spiel — magazines have turned the corner! advertisers love them again! — as much as he'd bought into Bon-Bon's blather.

Forbes's Midas List ranks "the best dealmakers in high-tech and life sciences." Predictable names at the top of the list of 25: venture capitalist John Doerr and pretty much anyone else who got into Google early enough. But enough celebration of the Google effect. What of all the people who've been knocked down the Silicon Valley pecking order? Sixteen who made the list last year are relegated, including, poignantly, Vinod Khosla, Doerr's former colleague at Kleiner Perkins.

• CBS News chief Sean McManus won't say that Katie's his dream anchor, but he does say that the next anchor will be named within a year, will be a solo anchor, will not come from within CBS, will be a known persona, and will have covered a lot of big stories at a network. Later, he added that the new anchor, while not necessarily Katie, will be female, perky, and willing to undergo an on-air colonoscopy. [NYT]
• Why are guests willing to go on O'Reilly? Masochism, clearly. [Boston Phoenix]
• Huh. Turns out James Brady has done a whole hell of a lot more than just those inane celebrity interviews in Parade. We had no idea. Cool. [Forbes]
• In the latest twist of the ever-amused saga of The Source, the board fires co-founders Dave Mays and Benzino. [NYP]
• OK! encourages its staffers to go on all-expense-paid junkets. Shit, now we kind of want to work there. [WWD]
• New chief at Time4 Media. [NYP]

• Lindsay Lohan continues to thrive after her "asthma attack" and Vanity Fair's "appalling" suggestion that she likes to boot and rally — due in no small part to the support of her mother Dina, who guzzles champagne with her daughter at B8 until the wee hours. [Page Six]
• Speaking of our fair young starlet, we too hear that Lohan hit up Saturday Night Live while "bloody cunt" Scarlett Johansson was hosting. But, well, was Lohan actually allowed to stay? [R&M (last item)]
• Rather than do an all-out blind item guessing game, we'll just put it this way: Clay Aiken, this is your life. [Page Six]
• If you care, the Golden Globes are tonight, and GQ editor Jim Nelson is getting everyone all liquored up for the event. Related: Can a glossy exist without extravagant, pricey parties? [Lowdown]
• Forbes.com wine pro Nick Passmore makes a total ass of himself while attempting to review Philippe. [Page Six]
• Desperate not to be forgotten by Brangelina's fetus, Matt Damon and his Anon-a-Wife are expecting a baby girl. [Scoop]

The cover story in this week's edition of Forbes is an ever-so pertinent examination of the innate evil and danger of blogs, especially when they attack your business (far be it from Condé to do such a cover). But, before the evil blogosphere destroys that crisp pile of millions upon which you're resting your gilded bum, be sure to protect your brand with the following easy steps:

Kurt Vonnegut, Noam Chomsky, Jane Goodall, Walter Cronkite, Daniel Libeskind and...Lizzie Grubman? Believe it, children: They're all featured in Forbes's special report on "communicating," and no one knows how to communicate better (from behind the wheel of a Mercedes SUV, anyhow) than PR Power Girl Lizzie Grubman.

The new Forbes 400 list is out — ranking the 400 richest Americans — is out, and the Forbes people tell us there are 41 media moguls on it. It's a lot of family money: There are five or six Hearsts, a Disney, an Annenberg, two Coxes. But what we're finding is making us surprisingly happy — maybe because we're interpreting as a victory for New York, or for magazines, or for people who aren't rightwing ideologues — is that Si Newhouse comes in above Rupert Murdoch.

· Superfuture city: Soho in New York [via Kottke]
· Radical walking tours of New York [via Kottke]
· Laura's NYC tales [via Anil]
· Forbes 400: World's richest people - 2003 [via 601am]
· Metafilter dissection of Queens-born rapper 50 Cent's lyrics to his latest hit, "In Da Club."

More fodder for the conspiracy theorists: Gawker's publisher estimates that at least 19 of the Forbes 400's 25 NYC billionaires are Jewish. (20 by my count.) Not that we're obsessed or anything. The full list, with Gawker annotations, is below.