In your finally Friday media column: the search for proper media jargon, a Tina Brown-to-Newsweek rumor, the NYT poaches a WaPo reporter, and Katie Couric's future, hinted at.

This fall, USA Today will lay off 130 employees—9% of its workforce.

Your neighbors: can you trust them? Well, more than you could 100 years ago, when kindly "Mr. Smith" next door may have been a dirty German who changed his name. Today, foreigners just rub our faces in their un-American pronunciations.

In your villainous Thursday media column: forcing Larry King back into your ear, temporary silence from Jay Mariotti, Jeff Zucker never stops droning on, and early morning TV gets even earlier.

Oh, the New York Post thinks that guy who slashed a cabbie just for being a Muslim is a "Disgrace." That would only be ironic if the NYP had somehow helped foster a hysterical anti-Muslim environment in our city recently.

In your backwards Wednesday media column: Major Garrett leaves Fox News, Sharon Waxman waxes on about her competitor, a VQR editor's suicide considered further, and a man from the future speaks out.

The Washington Times, which laid off a huge portion of its staff and fired its meddling publisher earlier this year, has now reached a deal to be sold—back to Rev. Sun Myung Moon! Hello again!

In your nubilous Tuesday media column: the WaPoCo's nervous about Kaplan, Seth Godin to reap more revenue from his followers, AARP Magazine is the king of all magazines, and a newspaper is bringing back a formerly scrapped section. Unheard of!

In your fearmongering Monday media column: vicious rumors of bedbugs at Elle, a mass exodus from the New York Observer, Sidney Harman has some ideas for Newsweek, media job moves afoot, and Philly wants to tax bloggers.

In your unemployed Friday media column: The NYT magazine editor search continues, top editors shuffle in and out of magazines elsewhere, an ill-advised warning for young journalists, and Robin Givhan on the Essence RACE SCANDAL.

"It's the way they surround the story. With OTB results and ads for phone sex." This fake New York Post version of the New York Times' infernal, inescapable 'Weekender' ad does have its moments.

In your comeuppance-laced Thursday media column: Bill O'Reilly tussles with Newsmax, an airline magazine that doesn't suck is discovered, business journalism salaries revealed, and the AP kills the "Ground Zero mosque."

In your global Wednesday media column: strongman manager buys biz show, rumors of trouble at OK! Magazine, management shuffles at Time Inc, and press freedom threatened in South Africa and Venezuela.

In your cocky Tuesday media column: those Red Eye boys are just as penis-obsessed as ever, News Corp gives a million bucks to Republicans, Nielsen's big IPO, and a reporter fired for wearing a nice hat.

In your murderous Monday media column: Mexico's reporters have a terrible job, the NYT Co. tests its paywall on a small stage, nobody trusts TV news, and James Kilpatrick dies.

A new Gallup poll shows that 49 percent of 18- to 29-year-olds have a "great deal" of confidence in newspapers, compared to just 16 percent of 30- to 49-year-olds. This is because they have never read a newspaper.

A memo just went out to NYDN employees announcing that CEO Marc Kramer is being replaced by William Holiber, who also runs U.S. News and World Report. The full memo is below.

In your finally Friday media column: News Corp attacks your iPad, a magazine editor's suicide considered, Howie Kurtz vs. Jake Tapper on a topic of import, and media softball is here, for what it's worth.

In your evasive Thursday media column: the WSJ is becoming more like your little hometown paper, Mediaite doesn't justify itself to anyone, an alt-weekly judgment upheld, and Bill O'Reilly and Glenn Beck have a mystifying chat.

Are you an aspiring journalist desperately seeking employment to validate your perilous career choice? Good news: Newsday is hiring 34 reporters. Real jobs for real journalists! Working on Long Island is a small price to pay. [Romenesko]