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Favre 'Unretirement' Proves a Headache for Daily Paper (E&P)
For the Green Bay Press-Gazette, the ongoing battle between Brett Favre and Packer management has been both a blessing and a curse. Since news broke that Favre had changed his mind and wanted to come back for another season, the daily has seen a boost in web traffic, reader comments, and single-copy sales. But the paper's sales of retirement-related merchandise that began in March when Favre tearfully announced his departure after 16 seasons has all but ground to a halt.

ABC News, WaPo Withheld Results of Poll (Media Matters)
ABC News and the Washington Post issued staggered releases of the results of their latest poll, withholding from their first release results favorable to Sen. Barack Obama, including the finding that 50 percent of registered voters would vote for Obama for president versus 42 percent for Sen. John McCain.

That Old Lady in Dubuque Gets the New Yorker's Cover (NYT)
When The New Yorker came into being in the 1920s its founder, Harold Ross, held up Dubuque as the sort of backwater he wanted nothing to do with. Ross, with Eustace Tilley nose in the air, said the magazine would not be "edited for the old lady in Dubuque." Not surprisingly, Dubuquers thought it terribly snooty of him, not to mention unfair. But they know enough to recognize satire.

Web Draws on Comics (WSJ)
As Warner Bros.' latest Batman movie The Dark Knight hits theaters Friday the studio is also set to unleash an online series starring the Caped Crusader that it hopes will usher in a new kind of web entertainment: a hybrid of comic books and animation that Warner calls "motion comics."

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