FBI Files Link Big TV, Film Names to Investigator(NYT)
Brad Grey, the chairman of Paramount Pictures and onetime Hollywood superagent Michael Ovitz had far more direct dealings than they have acknowledged publicly with the celebrity detective at the center of a rapidly expanding wiretapping scandal, according to government evidence.

Publishers Putting Out More Memoirs (WSJ)
Publishers plan to put out twice as many as memoirs as last year. The public's continuing fascination with reality TV and the ascent of narrative nonfiction are two trends that have helped drive sales. Memoirs have become "the new door opening for first-time writers, young and old."

The New Transparency (Chicago Reader)
Michael Miner notes how the New York Times now couches the use of anonymous sources, and gives some examples of how future sources will be described in the context of a story.

Sy Hersh's Iran Article 'Frustrating' (Boston Phoenix)
Mark Jurkowitz: Hersh doesn't fill in some very important blanks. And if he can't finish the job, then New Yorker editor David Remnick should assign someone to do a companion piece looking at the political and philosophical questions raised by Hersh's reporting.

TV Characters Get Their Own MySpace Pages (LAT)
Bands were the first to jump on the MySpace bandwagon. But over the past year studio marketing departments have caught on, building MySpace pages for people who exist only on the silver screen or on TV. Marketwatch: MySpace economics.

Science Blogs Peppered With Politics (OJR)
Stephen Bryant: A small network of writers at scienceblogs.com are trying to broaden scientific discourse by editorializing about everything from gay actors playing Christian characters to the embryo-worshipping antics of one Senator Fetus Fondler, more commonly known as Rick Santorum, Republican of Pennsylvania.

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