For Fame, For A Mid-Six-Figure Advance, And For Yale [FishbowlNY]
It's a rare thing when Gawker is unwilling to pierce someone's over-inflated ego before we are, but today is one of those days. The mystery young Yalie novelist appears to be one Nick Antosca.

CBS News Asks YouTube To Remove Video [TVNewser]
Remember last week's post about the sports segment that was so feel-good that the CBS Evening News aired it twice? Well it found its way onto YouTube, where it has been viewed more than a million times. Now CBS News is asking the company to remove its video.

Televised WH Briefings A 'Mistake' [FishbowlDC]
Question: Who thinks that televising White House press briefings was a big mistake? Ari Fleischer, Mike McCurry, or Cox's Ken Herman? Answer: All of the above, they tell Kit Seelye today.

LAT in 90 seconds [FishbowlLA]
- Michael Hiltzik goes Andy Rooney on AOL.
- Well, I'm sure there are plenty of other towns that would love to host a biker rally!
- I'll bet anyone $10 that if the word 'underwear' was in the headline instead of the dek, this story would be #1 on the most-emailed list.

American Book Pros, Brace Yourselves [GalleyCat]
How funny is it that the very day Sarah writes about authors being nice or not so nice, Lord Jeffrey Archer is back in the news? In his first television interview after having served two years in jail for a perjury conviction, Archer spoke to the BBC about his future plans: "I'm not taking any interest in politics. I'm not involved in politics in any way. My life is in writing now."

The Government Probably Paid Us to Post This [Unbeige]
The new book by Adbusters' founder, Kalle Lasn, Design Anarchy, might be the thing that brings us back out of this fat and happy state we're in now and get us back to where we should be: joining our middle-class brethren and pretending to be Zapatistas at anti-Bush protests.