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Randy Jackson to Host MTV Dance Show (NYP)
American Idol judge Randy Jackson is branching out with a hip-hop dance contest for MTV. Randy Jackson Presents America's Best Dance Crew will be a live weekly reality competition show in which hip-hop dance crews from around the country will audition to travel to Los Angeles to compete for dance supremacy, an unspecified cash prize, and a touring contract.

At White House Behest, NYT Sat on Scoop (Politico)
When the New York Times published a front page story Sunday about the United States' and Pakistan's joint clandestine efforts to protect nuclear weapons, the newspaper offered a glimpse into a "highly classified program" the Bush administration long objected to seeing in print. The Times disclosed that publication was delayed "for more than three years," after the administration argued "that premature disclosure could hurt the effort to secure the weapons."

Stop the New York Times Op-Ed Food Fight! (Salon)
Joan Walsh: Rather than make the Times Op-Ed page a throwback to the old Village Voice, where a reader looking for a smart take on politics and culture would too often get trapped in masturbatory writers' feuds, maybe the paper can call a truce and assign a reporter to get to the bottom of the issue. Isn't that what big news organizations offer readers, while maligning the blogosphere as the all-spin zone?

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