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Michael Savage's 'Spattering Invective' Almost Made Olbermann Quit MSNBC (Think Progress)
On PBS' Bill Moyers Journal this past Friday, MSNBC host Keith Olbermann criticized right-wing radio host Michael Savage, who had a show on MSNBC in 2003. Olbermann recounted how he nearly walked off the set of his Countdown show once when MSNBC told him to run a commentary by Savage. NYT: The humbling of Don Imus last spring over his remarks about the Rutgers women's basketball team has done nothing to quiet Savage, a radio host with a far bigger following and far more checkered track record.

Convicted Ex-WWD Scribe Wanted to 'Kill' Grigoriadis, Wintour (NYP)
"It's a good thing that I'm locked up, because I've been having violent fantasies," said fake-firefighter Peter Braunstein who was imprisoned for binding and sexually assaulting a woman for 12 terrifying hours on Halloween, 2005. "Everyone knows about how I wanted to kill Anna Wintour. I didn't just want to kill her, I wanted to take out the whole Vogue staff and a few people at Fairchild, too," he said.

TV Networks Consider Using Strike to Cancel Costly Production Deals (WSJ)
In moves that are likely to complicate the writers' strike as it enters its seventh week, most latenight shows are plotting to return to the airwaves and television companies are considering whether to cancel some of their costly production deals.The Writers Guild of America also announced over the weekend it will seek individual deals with media companies, after negotiations broke down a week ago.

On Facebook, Scholars Link Up With Data (NYT)
To study how personal tastes, habits and values affect the formation of social relationships (and how social relationships affect tastes, habits and values), a team of researchers from Harvard and UCLA are monitoring the Facebook profiles of an entire class of students at one college, which they declined to name because it could compromise the integrity of their research.

Covers of the Year — And 10 Mags That Are No More (AdAge)
Nat Ives picks his favorite covers of the year from a variety of mags, including The New Yorker's Ahmadinejad toe-tap, Texas Monthly's shotgun-toting Cheney , and the New York Post's needling of Barry Bonds when he broke the major league career home run record.

Baseball's Shame Is Journalists' Shame Too (LAT)
Tim Rutten: Like the owners and managers and the coaches and the lawyers and the agents and union representatives, our sporting press looks like just another clique with a good piece of some very profitable action. All that was required to collect was a willingness to turn a blind eye to the fact the money came from letting athletes cripple and kill themselves.

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