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New Angle on Nigella Lawson? (Page Six)
Spies at the Food Network say Nigella Lawson — the sexy British chef famous for batting her eyelashes, jiggling seductively while grating parmesan, and licking a spoon the way Tina Turner handled a microphone — has waaaay overeaten. "The result is a butt like a Budweiser horse," sniped one detractor. "Her director is now doing back flips to not show her below the waist."

Chinese State TV Switches to Non-Stop Footage of Chinese Under Attack (Guardian)
China has begun to fight back against criticism of its handling of the Tibetan protests, launching a sustained publicity offensive as well as blocking foreign broadcasters and Web sites and denying journalists access to areas of unrest. After days of ignoring and then playing down protests, the media suddenly switched course yesterday. TV channels aired hours of Friday's anti-Chinese riots in Lhasa and the aftermath.

Bedbug Infestation at Fox News (NYT)
While grappling with MSNBC and CNN for viewers, Fox News has also been battling a smaller, more insidious enemy closer to home: bed bugs in its Midtown Manhattan newsroom. The cable channel realized it had a problem a few weeks ago, when an employee "caught a bug and showed it to us." An exterminator determined that the incursion was limited to a "very small area in the newsroom."

McCain Reporter With 'Too Much Access' (HuffPo)
NPR correspondent Scott Horsley has some fabulous tidbits from the campaign trail, having first been assigned to Mitt Romney and then switching to John McCain of late. Here's the flipside of McCain's vaunted access: "They are an open book when it comes to their strategy, their tactics, their view of the race. It gets to the point where you just want them to shut up sometimes."

The Reporting Team That Got Iraq Right (HuffPo)
In the months before the U.S. invasion of Iraq, the reporters in the Knight Ridder Newspapers Washington D.C. bureau were virtually alone in their questioning of the Bush Administration's allegations of links between Saddam Hussein, weapons of mass destruction, and international terrorism.

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