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Colbert Replacement Bombs at WHCA Dinner (E&P)
What would the White House Correspondents Association dinner do for an encore on Saturday night in Washington following last year's controversial Stephen Colbert routine? President Bush was back, but with impressionist Rich Little replacing the barbed satire of Colbert, and with the usual broad cast of celebrities — from Reggie Bush to Condi Rice. WaPo: After the dinner, parties are icing on the cake. NYT: The advertisers, a big part of the reason the event remains frantically attended, got a nice mix of celebrity and wonkery, but the dinner had the feeling of an artifact, not of a contemporary event, writes David Carr. E&P: Singer Sheryl Crow got into it with Karl Rove over global warming, jawing like a baseball manager and an umpire arguing a call. HuffPo: Laurie David and Sheryl Crow on their encounter with "combative," "illogical," "dismissive" Karl Rove. FishbowlDC: Little's routine made us feel like we were at a Rotary Club somewhere.

LA Times to Cut 150 Jobs (LAT)
The paper is expected to announce a plan to cut about 5% of its workforce, or approximately 150 jobs, as profits at the newspaper and its Chicago-based parent company continue to slide. Executives said they expected most of the cuts, including nearly 70 newsroom positions, to come through voluntary buyouts. The news staff would shrink to about 850 people from 920.

YouTube Deletes, then Reinstates Video of McCain Singing 'Bomb Iran' (CNet)
YouTube confirmed that it had erroneously deleted and would restore a video of presidential candidate John McCain singing an impromptu ditty about starting a war with Iran. The Arizona senator joked about attacking the sovereign nation during a campaign stop in South Carolina this week.

Papers' Web Hopes Dim a Bit (WSJ)
Online advertising growth for the newspaper industry is slowing as the number of online news outlets proliferates. Media buyers indicate marketers are beginning to look beyond traditional journalism sites. One major issue for many newspapers online: Roughly 70% to 80% of their online revenue is tied to a classified ad sold in the print edition. Reuters: "My sense is this is a real red flag for the industry," said Ken Doctor, a media analyst for Outsell Inc. "Rapid online growth appears to be dimming. That's a big problem."

For Virginia Tech Killer's Twisted Video, Pause But No Rewind (WaPo)
Howard Kurtz: Journalism is about searching for answers. But what happens when there are no answers? When tragedy erupts, reporters strive to put together the pieces. But what if the puzzle doesn't quite fit, and there's no one to blame but a single, twisted lunatic? B&C: The impact of Virginia Tech on the news. DISCUSS: How has the media handled the Va. Tech shootings?

Clear Channel Testing Commercial-Free Radio in Texas (NYT)
Clear Channel Communications is trying something radically different at a commercial radio station in Texas: getting rid of the commercials. As of today, KZPS in Dallas will no longer run traditional 30- or 60-second advertisements. Instead, advertisers sponsor an hour of programming, during which a D.J. will promote its product conversationally.

Ailing TV Shows Await the Ax or the Reprieve (LAT)
Whether due to marginal ratings or tangled financial considerations — or, typically, a combination of both — the fate of some television shows is so precarious that even Hollywood's biggest touts, cynics and bull artists don't feel confident predicting whether they'll survive for another season.

WPNI Branches Out With Eco-Friendly Sprig (Mediaweek)
Washingtonpost.Newsweek Interactive has tapped several former magazine executives, including a handful of former staffers from Rodale's defunct Organic Style, to launch Sprig, a new environment-friendly shopping Web destination. The new site, which stands for "stylish people are into green," will go live today, just one day after Hearst Magazines debuted The Daily Green, its new similarly themed site.

The Latest on Virginia Tech, From Wikipedia (NYT)
For a few days last week, the seemingly chaotic nonstructure at Wikipedia served as an essential news source for hundreds of thousands of people on the Internet trying to understand the shootings at Virginia Tech University. From the contributions of 2,074 editors, at last count, the site created a polished, detailed article on the massacre, with more than 140 separate footnotes, as well as sidebars.

Moyers Hammers the Media for 'Buying the War' in Iraq (USAT)
Journalists were "shocked and traumatized by the atrocities of 9/11," PBS newsman Bill Moyers says. "Their natural response was to rally around the troops, make sure the commander-in-chief got the perpetrators." But that led most news organizations to "suspend their skepticism" of an administration bent on war in Iraq, he says, and that contributed to the "great blunder." E&P: Moyers: "The press has yet to come to terms with its role in enabling the Bush Administration to go to war on false pretenses."

Two New Producers, Lots of New Projects (NYT)
Ashton Kutcher and Jason Goldberg, his partner in Katalyst Films, are two of the busiest television producers in Hollywood. Four years after turning an updated version of Candid Camera called Punk'd into a hit on MTV, they have shows that are either in development for or will soon appear on four of the five broadcast networks. WaPo: Wedding Crashers desperately in need of annulment.

Talk-Show Host Gives Birth on Camera! In a Tub! (New York Mag)
Ricki Lake's documentary, The Business of Being Born, features her most revealing role yet: naked in the bathtub of her West Village apartment, delivering her second child, Owen. She wants to call attention to what she sees as the shortcomings of giving birth in hospitals, which she believes push for a Cesarean too readily: Some New York hospitals' Cesarean-section rate tops 40 percent.

Rolling Stone's Auto-Editorial Stimulation (Slate)
Jack Shafer: Anniversary-issue specialness — if it ever existed — vanished long ago, done in by the surplus of birthday books. Nobody in magazine publishing will say no to anniversary issues until readers do, and based on the local evidence, I don't think that day has arrived. Rolling Stone issue no. 1,000 is sold out in these parts of downtown Washington.

Friedman 'Not Buying' Sun-Times' Va. Tech Explanation (Marketwatch)
Jon Friedman: The Chicago Sun-Times touched off a furor when it reported that authorities were investigating whether a Chinese nationalist committed the killings on campus. Naturally, Chinese people were furious. The journalism profession should be angry as well over yet another invitation for the public to suggest that we are irresponsible and only interested in sensationalism.

'TV-Turnoff Week' Starts Today (WaPo)
For some kids, going seven days without television might sound like the worst kind of punishment. But for others, turning off the tube and finding different things to do is a fun challenge for the entire family. TV-Turnoff Week started in 1995 as a way to get people thinking about how much time they spend in front of their TV and computer screens, and how that cuts into time spent with other people.