Spinning the Vote (WaPo)
Howard Kurtz: From the moment the first Iraqis cast their ballots, the administration's supporters and critics were out in force, pushing their preferred story line.

A&E Buys Sopranos Rerun Rights (NYT)
The cable network has agreed to pay at least $2.5 million per episode to rerun HBO's The Sopranos and has said that it would begin broadcasting those episodes in fall 2006.

Fair Play (Salon)
Eric Boehlert: Some Democrats are using Bush's pay-for-say media scandals to push for a new Fairness Doctrine for broadcasting.

Miller's Re-Crossing (Slate)
Jack Shafer: Appearing on Hardball, Times reporter Judith Miller makes a spectacular claim about Ahmed Chalabi that she didn't (or couldn't) get into the paper.

WaPo's Hoffman to Lead Foreign Staff (WaPo)
David Hoffman, who has been foreign editor of The Washington Post for the past four years, was named yesterday to be assistant managing editor for foreign news.

Top Ed at Philly Daily News Steps Down (Philadelphia Inquirer)
Zack Stalberg, after more than 34 years with the Philadelphia Daily News and 20 years as its editor, will retire later this month.

Metro Mess Continues (Mediachannel)
Rory O'Connor: Despite the seemingly endless series of allegations, revelations, and resignations, The New York Times Company and The Boston Globe still don't get the Metro story.

AOL, TW Finally Consummate Cable Partnership (WaPo)
The corporate siblings finally put in place a partnership yesterday to connect computer users to the Internet—a partnership that was cited five years ago as a key reason for the $112 billion America Online-Time Warner Inc. merger.

BBC Apology (BBC)
The network has apologized for incorrectly broadcasting figures that suggested more Iraqi civilians had been killed by coalition and Iraqi forces than by insurgents.

Reagan Specials Tops (NYDN)
Commemorative issues from Time and Newsweek, both showing a smiling Reagan in a cowboy hat, were the magazines' top sellers on newsstands in 2004.

NBC Goes Ballistic Over GMA vs. Today Article (NYDN)
Lloyd Grove: The Washington Post's David Segal took heavy fire yesterday after hurling himself into the middle of the vicious morning show ratings war between NBC and ABC.

Too Few Ombuds? (AJR)
Jennifer Dorroh: The relationship between the public and the media is troubled. It seems logical for a news outlet to assign someone to listen to audience concerns and analyze its news coverage.

On Guards (NYT)
GX, a magazine that began publication in March 2004, seeks to celebrate the experience of members of the National Guard.

Sontag's Stories (Slate)
Jess Row: Why Susan Sontag is not likely to be remembered for her short stories despite their high quality.

Blogging Teen Buzz (SFC)
Anastasia Goodstein's breezy, teen-oriented Ypulse has become a must-read for those into youth culture, from Seventeen's Atoosa Rubenstein to youth ministers and librarians.

Lion in Wintour (NYP)
Sara Stewart: Nobody inspires envy, fear, and—apparently—hatred quite like icy editrix Anna Wintour, parodied in The Devil Wears Prada and now the subject of a biting unauthorized biography hitting stores today.

60 Years With the Christian Science Monitor (CSM)
Godfrey Sperling: No one has better described the paper's impact than when, in Commitment to Freedom, editor Erwin Canham wrote that it was "a newspaper which is to professionals a kind of daily astonishment."

Only Four Writers Have Covered Every Super Bowl (E&P)
Meeting the scribes who have the unique distinction of being the only newspaper writers to have covered all 38 Super Bowls.

—David S. Hirschman