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Sirius Fear Factor (Reuters)
Sirius Satellite Radio Inc. CEO Mel Karmazin said Tuesday it was "scary" paying huge amounts to secure Howard Stern, the NFL and NASCAR, but still well worth it. "It's scary how much they cost, but I would rather have them and find a way to make money with them rather than compete against them."

At Least 3 Bids for Knight Papers (LAT)
McClatchy Co.'s planned sale of a dozen Knight Ridder Inc. newspapers drew bids from at least three potential — including an offer for all 12 from Los Angeles investment firm Yucaipa Cos. Yucaipa is allied with the union that represents employees at eight of the papers.

Lou Dobbs Leverages Immigration Issue to Win Viewers (NYT)
In insistently offering his ever more passionate views on immigration, Dobbs underscores that what works in cable television news is not an objective analysis of the day's events but hard-nosed, unstinting advocacy of a specific point of view on a sizzling-hot topic.

Media Back Into Business (WWD)
Since Condé Nast Publications Inc. announced it would be entering the category with a megabudget magazine and Web launch in 2007, overseen by EIC Joanne Lipman and group president and publisher David Carey, the business sector has been undergoing something of a renaissance.

Time Inc. Wants to Be a Bigger Web Player (WSJ)
"What's abundantly clear to us is that there is a really attractive, smart readership who are younger than they are older and who get what they are looking for from the Web," says TimeManaging Editor James Kelly.

Hoaxsters Love Scamming Google News (CSM)
Are "aggregators" providing the news — or are they diluting it with fakery, hucksterism, and puffery? An entire industry has sprouted up to ensure that press releases pop up next to stories from major newspapers when users of Google or Yahoo go trolling for news.

AP Admits Blog Was Uncredited Source of Article (Raw Story)
The wire service's article, "Security Clearance Rules May Impede Gays," attributed the discovery of the clearance changes to gay rights groups but the discovery was made by Raw Story, which picked the wording out of an extended document. AP ran a story highlighting the same item and using similar language.

Fox Affiliate Goes Overboard Promoting 24 (CJR Daily)
Edward Colby: It's hardly unusual for a local TV news outlet to promote one of their own network's shows. But at some point, it crosses the line into such crass self-promotion that it becomes positively embarrassing. Such is the tale of our local New York City Fox affiliate, and its obsession with 24.

Connie on Katie: 'Gravitas' Chauvinistic (NYO)
Rebecca Dana: It's one thing to be the most successful morning news anchor. Being an evening news anchor is something else — something more... grave? More Latinate? Katie Couric lacks it, by various accounts, because of her legs or her boyfriends or her perky giggle. FBNY: Katie Couric contract countdown: day 64.

Bill Could Solidify Power of Mexican TV Giants (LAT)
New legislation would in effect grant new broadcasting spectrum to media giants Grupo Televisa and TV Azteca to launch high-definition television and other digital services without expressly requiring them to pay for it.

Jann a Party Monster? (NYP)
Rolling Stone founder Jann Wenner is apparently trying to add some pop to the party that will celebrate the magazine's 1,000th issue by signing The Strokes as opening act. But Wenner is "driving everyone crazy," over the party says one insider. "He keeps changing his mind."

Make All Mistakes Twice (Slate)
Jack Shafer: If we're going to take Jim Brady to the woodshed for not knowing his young new writer was a plagiarist, let's reserve room for the dozens of editors at top newspapers, magazines, and book publishers who've repeatedly published the work of accused serial plagiarists.

Inward Facing Blog (Salon)
Scott Rosenberg: Do bloggers lean left or right? Does the blogosphere have an ideological tilt? Such questions once engaged mainstream reporters and pundits struggling to understand an upstart online movement. But now, the pointlessness of these questions seems plain.

Mourning Cargo (NYO)
"It was never a men's shopping magazine," EIC Ariel Foxman said. (Each issue included a sheet of page-marking stickers reading "BUY" or "SAVE.") "It never identified with metrosexuals." (November 2005: "I would love to find a cleaner, less painful depilation process — and maybe sugaring will do the trick.")