In your questionable Wednesday media column: Arianna Huffington knows how to pick 'em, buyouts at Newsweek, Whoopi gives America's best newspaper her blessing, Time magazine revamps, and Rolling Stone outsources its cover.

In your essential Tuesday media column: ESPN anchors in shameless sellout agreement, NPR is not going to die, Lawrence O'Donnell howls at the moon, Here Media loses in court, Mothering magazine folds its print edition, and we help The Daily.

In your warming Monday media column: Jacob Weisberg points out that The Daily has no clothes, CBS is still wooing Katie Couric, rumors of Gannett getting rid of USA Today, Arianna Huffington stiffs a high school reporter, Dan Le Batard hammers a word stake in Deadspin's black heart, and alpacas attack.

In your finally Friday media column: journalism's least competent weed dealer located, a Wikileaks smear scheme exposed, Rupert Murdoch believes in himself, AP employees put their cars on strike, and Eminem only speaks to middle school news outlets.

In your crippled Thursday media column: Magic Johnson saves Vibe, some jokers think AOL's brand can be "tainted," another departure from the NY Daily News, schadenfreude at CBS News, and News Corp's kitchen furniture police are out in full force.

In your rearranged Wednesday media column: CBS laughably asks Katie Couric to stay, New Yorker fact checking goes above and beyond, AOL stock shakes off HuffPo's purchase price, Keith Olbermann is as calm and dignified as always, and Joshy Tyrangiel, profiled.

Looks like the terrorists have finally won. The magazine war, that is! A new Tea Party magazine launches this weekend, and compared with al Qaeda's at-home terrorism magazine Inspire, it totally sucks.

In your opportune Tuesday media column: Sean McManus leaves as head of CBS News, HuffPo bloggers timidly call for pay, Bill O'Reilly is full of shit, NYT correction of the day, magazine circulation drops, a new editor at the Chicago Reader, and how much can you trust your free guest blog content?

In your buggy Monday media column: Kathleen Parker's exact worth is pinpointed, the HuffPo-AOL merger dissection and fallout begins, complaints about The Daily increase, and beware of Al Jazeerans attempting to infiltrate America via television screens.

In your finally Friday media column: you won't have Deborah Solomon's Q&A's to scoff at any more, more evidence of Sam Zell's intolerability, Hachette waits on its layoffs, and magazine newsstands are dinosaur-like things.

In your crystalline Thursday media column: Regent Media has even bigger money troubles than usual, News Corp is doing well, the new Newsweek is floating around, another Egypt journo-terror roundup, and rumored layoffs at Forbes.

In your undesirable Wednesday media column: NPR needs another Ellen Weiss, blogs are dead or possibly thriving, the Newsweek-Daily Beast merger is going about as well as expected, and Fox News establishes its priorities.

The Newsweek- Daily Beast merger officially went through today. And, a tipster says, TDB already told "most of the editorial and production assistants they've hired the past few months" that "their jobs are over." Journalism's rough! Know more? Email me.

Oprah Winfrey appointed Maria Shriver to guest edit a "poetry issue" of O magazine. Does the former newscaster/first lady of California have an MFA in creative writing we don't know about? And what's Demi Moore got to do with it?

In your feuding Tuesday media column: Bill Keller regards Rupert Murdoch's legacy, David Shuster is launching his own news site, the Harper's union battle grows ever more ridiculous, and ignoring Al Jazeera grows ever more difficult.

In your stuffed Monday media column: Tina Brown is making power moves, Hearst is making Hachette employees nervous, a PBS show may get canceled, Phish fans invade the media, and The Atlantic Wire gets a new boss.

Hearst's long-awaited purchase of French media conglomerate Lagardere's international magazine business is finally official. The purchase price: $887 million. The upshot: Hearst may now be the most powerful decider of the future of the magazine industry.

In your venturesome Friday media column: Jeff Zucker's rumored to have big plans, People StyleWatch is insanely successful, Demand Media's coming to buy your blog, and Mark Whitaker heads to CNN.

In your ice-encased Thursday media column: Sam Zell is done with you media types, Comcast wouldn't dream of touching NBC News, rabbis (in the pocket of George Soros, commie Jew) hate Glenn Beck, and The Daily is coming next week.

Rodale, publisher of Men's Health and employer of serial plagiarist David Zinczenko, explains why ripping writers' bylines off their work, and slapping Zinczenko's on, is OK: "The byline doesn't take credit for the work, but serves as an overarching tag."