Rather Reacts to Memogate Findings (USAT)
Dan Rather says that he is puzzled that the media did not play up the fact that the panel found no political bias, as his critics contended, in his controversial 60 Minutes story last fall that questioned President Bush's National Guard service. Time: Vladmir Putin, CBS loyalist. NYT: Two of CBS's Memogate three, who had refused for more than a month to resign over a disputed broadcast concerning President Bush's National Guard service, submitted their resignations late Friday.

NBC News Still on Top With Williams (NYT)
Despite predictions of disaster, Brian Williams has held his own in his first three months as the anchor of NBC Nightly News.

Disney, Weinsteins Work on Final Details (LAT)
Walt Disney Co. and Miramax Film Corp. co-founders Bob and Harvey Weinstein are putting the finishing touches on the dissolution of their Hollywood marriage.

CNN Pillar Calling it Quits (NYDN)
Financial news icon Myron Kandel is retiring from CNN after 25 years—another milestone in the cable net's retreat from its once-vaunted position in business news.

Bush to Reach Euro Muslims Via Satellite (Guardian)
The Bush administration plans to begin Arab-language satellite-television broadcasts to Europe this year in an escalation of its information war against Islamist extremism.

Time Editor Henry Grunwald Dies (Time)
Grunwald, one of the most distinguished managing editors in the magazine's history and for decades a pre-eminent figure in American journalism, died last week at 82. NYT: Grunwald oversaw Time's shift from a taut, tart, right-leaning publication to a more centrist magazine.

Karmazin, Chameleon (NYT)
Laura Rich: Former Viacom president Mel Karmazin, who signed on as the chief executive of Sirius Satellite Radio last fall, talks about his new job and the one he left behind.

Blog Stars Have a Lot to Prove (Marketwatch)
Jon Friedman: Many bloggers are doing important work and they're here to stay, but the vast majority have about as much impact on the public's understanding of the daily news as the shrill eccentrics on NYC subways.

Gossip Unprintable in L.A.? (NYT)
The absence of a scandal sheet in Los Angeles seems one of the city's lingering mysteries, perfect for a film noir.

Coulter: Thomas an 'Old Arab' (E&P)
The phrase about Helen Thomas—who has Lebanese parents and has spent more than 60 years in journalism—was edited out of Coulter's syndicated column, but remains on her website.

Strict Rules for Oscars Ads (AdAge)
Although Academy Awards ad inventory sold out early at record-breaking prices, marketers' creative materials were tightly policed for potentially controversial content before last evening's Oscars broadcast.

Allawi: Iraq Needs Media's Help (WSJ)
The pan-Arab media has a big role to play in the transformation of Iraq, writes Ayad Allawi. By reporting fairly on the elections, the media made Iraqis proud.

Money's Softer Side (NYT)
Money magazine is being transformed from an investment guide aimed largely at men to a family-friendly helpmate.

Sweeps Stunts to Sober Up? (NYT)
With the new Nielsen meters rolling out across the country, local stations will have demographic information year-round, not just four times a year.

Balancing Press Freedom and Criminal Justice (Newsday)
Michael Kinsley: The federal appeals court ruling in the Plame case is a travesty. Having promised anonymity to sources at a time when the law about "journalist's privilege" was unclear, the two public-spirited journalists should not have to betray them.

Celeb Mags Raid Paparazzi Editors (New York)
When celebrity glossies need a break from fighting over photos of Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie engaged in alleged eye contact, they fight over the photo editors who fight over the photos.

Taiwan's Media Run Riot (LAT)
The country's media go all out for a story, even if the facts aren't there. Reformers don't have much clout in a culture that's so freewheeling.

The Indecency of Moral Posturing (LAT)
David Shaw: It's noteworthy that the campaign to control what we can watch and listen to is being led by a conservative administration that purports to favor individual freedoms and that demands the government get out of people's lives.

Press Rooting for Another Clinton Campaign? (WaPo)
Howard Kurtz: The Hillary obsession reflects a broader journalistic impulse to debate and sometimes predict the future.

British Papers Stem Losses (IHT via NYT)
While it used to be easy to tell Britain's broadsheet newspapers from its tabloids, nowadays things are not so clear.

Lizzie Grubman Bounces Back (New York)
Ever since November 29, 2002, the day she was released from the Suffolk County Correctional Facility, the original PR power girl been carefully rebuilding her business and her image.

What HST Left Behind (New Yorker)
Louis Menand: The writer was a high-strung, thin-skinned, programmatically dissipated workaholic, inveterately suspicious of authority, and unable to deal with the attention and success that he scrambled and sweated for many years to achieve. Newsday: Thompson made journalism fun, writes Clarence Page. LAT: Thompson was gonzo, but no journalist, writes Tim Rutten.

—David S. Hirschman