World Trade Center 'Junket Whore' Critic Banned By Paramount [FishbowlNY]
A freelance film critic who wrote about a Seattle press junket for Oliver Stone's World Trade Center says Paramount Pictures, the studio behind WTC, has banned him from future press junkets and is demanding he remove the 5,000-plus-word piece, "I Was a Junket Whore," from his Web site. FBNY: Banned junket critic says other "junket whore" made up Oliver Stone quotes.

Confirmed: Maxim Axes Four Staffers In Restructuring, Hires Ex-Stuffers [FishbowlNY]
The rumor is true: Maxim editor Jimmy Jellinek's "mini-restructuring" now includes the firing of four editorial staffers: associate editor John Devore, associate editor Steve Mazzucchi, fact-checker Bart Morrisroe and production editor Andrij Witiuk. According to a source, Stuff associate editor Jeff Foss and Seth Kelly, a Stuff staffer from the Greg Gutfeld era, are joining Page Six's Chris Wilson on the revamped Maxim staff.

Dobbs Responds To Nation [TVNewser]
Lou Dobbs responds to The Nation's criticism of his "Nightly Nativism": "Tonight, a few words for an otherwise irrelevant publication called The Nation, which accuses me in a mistake-riddled left-wing screed of being hysterical, jingoistic and an immigration restrictionist, even though I'm on record in favor of immigration ... legal immigration."

Some WaPo Terror Coverage Back-Patting [FishbowlDC]
A Washington Post staff email from Phil Bennett: "Thanks to all who contributed to the coverage so far of the London plot. From the first pre-dawn post by the Continuous News Desk, yesterday was a display of hustle, ingenuity, applied insights and the kind of luck that lands your Baghdad bureau chief in a fortuitious layover at Heathrow. The battle-weary, sleep and vacation deprived Foreign Desk deserves special recognition after starting the day without a correspondent in London."

Expect To See Shepard Fairey Retrospective On Telephone Polls [UnBeige]
Doesn't it seem that designer/artist Shepard Fairey pops up once every couple of years in a big way? On August 14, the end all, be all of all things his career will be examined in a book entitled Supply and Demand: The Art of Shepard Fairey.

NYTBR Flunks Journalism 101? [GalleyCat]
I commented yesterday afternoon on Liesl Schillinger's slam on bookbloggers in this weekend's New York Times Book Review cover story, and though my immediate reaction centered around the fact that Schillinger failed to identify her sources one of whom, somebody showed me a much greater flaw in the article this morning.

Blogging the Wrong Way? [MBToolbox]
There are many things to discuss about this e-mail, which was forwarded to me yesterday. What's up exactly with citizen journalism? Should payment be determined by story popularity? Is this a cautionary tale for freelancers submitting online content?