Jill Carroll's Ordeal (BoGlo)
James Carroll: The brutality of Carroll's captors goes without saying. It seems impossible to exaggerate the gravity of her jeopardy. But is there really nothing her fellow citizens can do but worry and plead? What exactly is the US government doing for her? Where is the pressure from Congress?

Scant Bidding for Knight Tells Story of Decline (NYT)
News Analysis: Knight Ridder ended up attracting only one newspaper bidder in its highly publicized auction, underscoring the fog hanging over the industry and the unique challenges facing the company. E&P: Will guild get some of the KR newspapers that McClatchy is selling off?

Frey's Predictable Scandal (CJR)
Sam Freedman: The most significant revelation is not that James Frey conveniently traversed the border between fiction and nonfiction, but that the publishing industry purported to see absolutely nothing amiss in his method and offered up a series of self-justifying rationales to excuse it. LAT: Frey's TV idea in pieces, too.

Internet Video Gives Birth to 'Slivercasting' (NYT)
Media companies have received attention for moving their own programming online as downloads for iPods and streaming programs. But there are thousands of online producers whose programming would never make it into prime time but who have developed very dedicated small audiences.

Young Adult Fiction Making Girls Grow Up Too Fast? (NYT)
Naomi Wolf: The great reads of adolescence have classically been critiques of the corrupt or banal adult world. It's sad if the point of reading for many girls now is no longer to take the adult world apart but to squeeze into it all the more compliantly.

Liz Smith: I Don't Make Little Enemies (CBS News)
Most celebrities run to Smith, not away from her, simply because she's usually so nice to them. But despite her propensity for niceties, Smith admits, "I made a lot of enemies anyway." Smith dared to tell Ivana Trump's side against "The Donald's" in his first divorce. And the biggest of all: Frank Sinatra.

Ed Carr to Take Top Economist Spot? (Press Gazette)
Bookies believe Ed Carr is now a sure bet to replace Bill Emmott as editor of The Economist. Betting agent Paddy Power has closed its book on the race for the editorship of the mag. Carr, the magazine's current business and financial editor, drew odds of 6/1 to take the job.

Jann Making 'Mini-Me'? (NYP)
Liz Smith: Jann Wenner and his partner, fashion's Matt Nye, announce an addition to their family — a baby, arriving in the summer. Jann and Matt say they are "very happy."

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