Attorney General Eric Holder says the criminal investigation into Wikileaks founder Julian Assange is more than just "saber-rattling," and Justice Department officials are claiming he violated the Espionage Act. If that's true, isn't the New York Times guilty as well?

In your merry Monday media column: Salon's staff memo on today's news, Virginia Heffernan's dream comes true, The Daily eschews Republicinsanity, WSJ. vs. T magazine, and David Carr feels the love.

For well over a decade, Salon.com has tried to solve the puzzle of how to put out a daily online-only magazine featuring quality writing and journalism without losing money. They've failed. We have just one decent idea for their survival.

Fox News subsidiary Fox Nation posted an excerpt from a satirical Onion article in the "culture" section of its site on Friday. The only problem: They didn't tell anyone it was a joke.

In your vacation-ready Wednesday media column: Jon Meacham's really nice, Cathie Black's tentative future, Howard Stringer's name gaffe, Glenn Greenwald vs. The Nation, and very fine hackery.

In your traditional Tuesday media column: a new racket for News Corp, a new editor at Men's Journal, a new features editor at the NY Daily News, a new name for Medill J-school

Help us understand this big scandal in India: journalists were caught "having inappropriate conversations with a corporate lobbyist and acting more like power brokers." Huh. In America we give journalists prime editorial columns for that! Thomas Friedman's stumped. [WaPo]

Simple-minded Alaskan nature guide Sarah Palin told unbiased journalist Sean Hannity that she won't bother speaking to biased interviewers like Katie Couric, whose biased questions about what newspapers Palin reads are biased. After all, Sarah Palin is a journalist.

In your penniless Monday media column: TONY freelancers say they're being stiffed, NPR is afraid of the public's emails, The Daily may have to fight for its name, and Whoopi vs. O'Reilly, round two.

We all knew Harvey Levin's TMZ pays people to leak information to them, as recently fired L.A. County Superior Court spokesman has been accused of doing. But their real secret? Just plant a staffer on the courthouse payroll. [Update below]

Two more recruits to The Daily News Corp's iPad news project: Hunter Walker (formerly of The Wrap) to the gossip beat; and, we hear, former sextacular NY Post-ie and current UrbanDaddy editor Justin Rocket Silverman. Woo.

In your finally Friday media column: Katie Couric rebukes the Today show, rumors of payment problems at Time Out NY, magazine ad pages are up modestly, and Sean Hannity and Glenn Beck lose Philly, and morning television funneez.

In your packed Thursday media column: Jeff Bewkes hides in plain sight, News Corp's looking to poach from the NYDN, the decline of the Atlanta Journal-Constitution, AMI's bankrupt, and Vice comes to MTV.

Monty Cook, a former Baltimore Sun editor, has resigned from his position at the University of North Carolina's journalism school after a mini-scandal over his sexy instant messages with a female student. Remarkably, this wasn't his first sexy G-chat incident.

In your sadly predictable Wednesday media column: Dan Rather's predictable memoir, Roger Ailes' predictable comments, the predictable financial failure of a quality journalism operation, and the predictably bizarre fallout of a women's magazine uproar.

In your paradigm-shifting Tuesday media column: Sasha Frere-Jones decamps, Keith Olbermann declaims, Brides magazine double-entendres, and the NYT deconstructs.

Bold action at the Janesville (Wisconsin) Gazette, where editor Scott Angus announced that the paper's banning comments on stories about "crimes, courts, accidents, race or sex" in order to "cut down on the ugliness." How are the commenters taking it?

At The Benilde St. Margaret's School in Minnesota, the student newspaper wrote an editorial protesting the fact that their Catholic Archdiocese had sent out a DVD opposing gay marriage. What! Censor that, at once! That eloquent writing is anti-Catholic!

President Obama has written a children's book! "Obama shares dreams for his kids in book on 13 Americans," reads the USA Today headline. Fox Nation has a slightly different take, though: "Obama Praises Indian Chief Who Killed U.S. General." Hmmm.

USA Today has five reporters covering Congress, and 27 covering entertainment. To be fair: Justin Bieber.