NBC Apologizes For Emmy Plane Crash Skit [FishbowlNY]
the network has issued an apology for Lost plane crash spoof included in a skit that opened the Emmy awards show Sunday night, hours after a plane crash in Kentucky killed 49.
FBNY: Was Conan's Lost Emmy spoof distasteful in light of plane crash? Also: Conan O'Brien's Emmy performance: Was awesome, except when it sucked.

Howell To Post: Stop Supporting Hookers [FishbowlDC]
Well, sort of. Washington Post ombudsman Deborah Howell examines an obscure, but interesting, aspect of her newspaper: Their massage parlor ads.

Couric Gets Bush For First Evening News Interview [TVNewser]
Katie Couric has landed an interview with President George W. Bush at the White House for the CBS primetime special Five Years Later — How Safe Are We?

Chick Lit: Written by Party-Girls, Not MFAs [GalleyCat]
Even though quite a few book reviewers have taken the opportunity provided by Elizabeth Merrick's This Is Not Chick Lit to get some elitist condescension towards chick lit out of their system, I haven't said anything ... until St. Petersburg Times reviewer Colette Bancroft let loose some howling whoppers that I just couldn't let slip by.

Wardrobe Malfunction? [FishbowlLA]
CBS censors hate Tommy Lee's pierced man nipples. Sources at last night's taping of Rock Star: Supernova tell FBLA that filming stopped when the rocker walked onto the set topless. A wardrobe person handed Tommy a shirt and said, "The censors have spoken."

National Park Service Wants to Silence 'Stolen' Flight 93 Memorial Ideas Troubles [UnBeige]
Over the weekend, we heard from Lisa Austin, one of the two designers/artists who are trying to get recognition for the concepts clearly copied from their initial proposals for the Flight 93 Memorial in Pennsylvania, which we've been covering.

Clinton, Armstrong, Eisner, Burnett To Give 'Power' Talk At Javits Center [FishbowlNY]
Mark your calendars for October 6. Why? Because that is the day a former president, former Tour de France winner, former Disney CEO and current race-dividing producer of Survivor are scheduled to participate in a daylong series of motivational talks — dubbed "The Power Within" — at the the Javitz Center.

When Strange Things are Afoot at the Circle K ... [MBToolBox]
This weekend I learned a little lesson on what to do if you feel that your work has been copied without your permission.