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Morning Media Minutiae, Sex With A Strange Man In A Stairwell Edition

More bad news for Les Moonves (and for all of us, really): Tina Brown starts with Sunset Boulevard and carves a swath through the next generation of anchorpeople. Bob Woodruff is "as clean-cut and wrinkle-free as a Pixar animation"; Campbell Brown has "a face you can't pin down." Meanwhile, in just a year so much has changed, across the board. The anchor-bots are ready for their close-ups; and the news cycle turns. Tina, ever the optimist. [WaPo]
And we haven't even begun to talk about shoe-shopping: At Salon, Sidney Blumenthal examines Condoleeza Rice's "trail of lies" about the US and torture. Salon illustrates with a weird and kind of disquieting graphic. [Salon]
Best. Retraction. Ever. "We're happy to report that Murphy never used heroin or had sex with a strange man in a stairwell." [NYP]
Worst. Tease. Ever. Uncharacteristically tight-lipped grande dame of gossip Liz Smith describing the entertainment at Bette Midler's 60th birthday party: "Katie Couric and Rosie O'Donnell in an astounding duet." C'mon Liz, dish. [NYP]
Good Lord, Salon's launched another blog? Good thing they picked a specific, manageable topic. [How The World Works]
So crazy it just might work: "Last night I dreamed there was a magazine called "American Comment", that consisted solely of letters to the editor and reader polls, solicted in the previous issue. Before you say "that's the stupidest idea ever", I'd like to point out that Americans are the stupidest people ever. It's a total P.T. Barnum idea, like Desperate Housewives, or the Bush Administration. I have no idea what the rest of the dream was about." [Lindsayism]