• Maybe they'll do better next semester: The media doesn't exactly get an A for its reporting on the 9/11 commission report, says E&P, (esp. the NYT, says WaPo, and yesterday's Slate). To Rummy, on the other hand, it's a step in the right direction! Sheesh.

• Sometimes, they take care of the punchline for you: "Mel Gibson Developing Holocaust Mini-Series" is a good example. And sometimes, that punchline is so very not funny. In other news, heard of a guy named Hutton Gibson? Total myth. [NYT]

• "Vanity Fair offers fresh details on Judith Miller saga"; E&P doesn't offer fresh photo. E&P gets a preview of Seth Mnookin's take on the whole Judy Miller imbroglio (nay, kerfuffle) and it looks like Mnookin (who laid low on commenting on the affair) got an interesting take with new info. That said, I was distracted by the headshot - 20 pounds will date at photo, E&P. Search your archives. I think she may have been caught on film once or twice in the past few months... [E&P]

• Yet another opportunity to make a "Time wasn't on their side" joke: The NYO's Anna Schneider-Mayerson wonders if Time burned a source writing about Viveca Novak's testimony before the Grand Jury. Can't pin this on Pearlstine this time, people. [NYO]

• The Year of Thinking Magically: Producer Scott Rudin and screenwriter David Hare, both of "The Hours," are planning to adapt Joan Didion's bestselling "The Year of Magical Thinking" into a Broadway play. No punchline here; we know what the plot is about. [NYT]

*Yes, we know it's Wednesday. But Wednesday is the most boring day of the week for headlines. Just another manic Wednesday? Wednesday night's all right for fighting? Ruby Wednesday? Please. So we made an executive decision to set the clock forward a day (time is on our side, people!).