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Lou Dobbs Takes Flak From Many Directions, Fires Back (CSM)
CNN's Lou Dobbs is a man with a mission: Keep hammering on immigration in the United States. He's been at it for years, warning that immigrants (illegal and sometimes legal) are a threat to the country's economic and social well-being. Naturally (and no doubt intentionally) he's raised the ire of critics.

Magazines See Fatter December Issues (AdAge)
The holidays are delivering at least one present everyone in magazines wanted: ad pages. "Advertisers still aren't going deep, but they're definitely spending more than they had been in the first few quarters of the year," said Steve Sachs, president of the lifestyle division at Time Inc.

Mobile's Unanswered Call To Service (min)
Steve Smith: Ultimately, the lessons publishers learn from their mobile iterations about what their users really want from the content will instruct and improve what we do on the Web and perhaps even in print. Mobile is the platform where the user is in absolute control of the experience (or should be) and will not tolerate irrelevance.

Columnist Quits After Newsday Starts Charging for Its Web Site (NYT)
Saul Friedman, who had written a column for Newsday since 1996, quit last week over the paper's decision to require some readers to pay for access to its Web site. "My column has been popular around the country, but now it was really going to be impossible for people outside Long Island to read it," he explained.

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