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Disney Sees Profit Climb 30 Percent (LAT)
Desperate housewives and a potbellied superhero helped Walt Disney Co. continue its financial rebound as the company Wednesday posted a 30 percent earnings jump in its fiscal second quarter.

BBC Staffers to Strike (Times UK)
BBC employees voted overwhelmingly yesterday to go on strike in protest against plans to cut 3,800 jobs this year. BBC: Staff will stage 24-hour strikes on May 23, May 31, and June 1.

'Blistering' Sun Memo Leaked (NYP)
The New York Sun, the money-bleeding, right-leaning daily paper, is "floundering" and morale is sinking, one of the paper's top editors warned in an internal memo that rocketed around the media world yesterday, citing the names and salaries of the paper's expendables.

Press Wasn't Warned in White House Evacuation (E&P)
A public address system installed after Sept. 11 to warn White House reporters about an emergency was not used yesterday when the building was evacuated after a small plane flew into unrestricted air space over Washington D.C.

CNBC Cancels Dennis Miller Show (CNN/Money)
Dennis Miller will be replaced with a second airing of Mad Money With Jim Cramer and the network will also replace Late Night With Conan O'Brien with a new business show. Both moves are part of a repositioning of CNBC's primetime back to the network's focus on financial news and away from failed attempts at entertainment.

Chappelle's Show Won't Go On (EW via Gawker)
Comedian Dave Chappelle has checked himself into a mental health facility in South Africa and has remained there since late April, according to a source close to the situation.

'Beleaguered' WMA Lashes Out at NY Post (Variety)
The William Morris Agency has hired a lawyer following a month of negative stories about it in the New York paper, citing the Post's coverage as "extraordinarily vicious."

Confusion Over Yahoo Music Download Strategy (Wired News)
Following yesterday's launch of Yahoo Music Unlimited, the company's digital music subscription service, analysts wonder how last September's acquisition of Musicmatch fits into the picture.

Liberty Group Sold Off (E&P)
The Illinois publisher with a stable of 274 newspapers will be sold to the NYC investment firm Fortress Investment Group.

Last Call for Okrent (Salon)
New York Times public editor Daniel Okrent reflects on the paper's "very bad journalism" on WMD, its liberal slant, and William Safire's wisecracks about readers.

The Next Great Indecency Threat (Boston Phoenix)
Since the 1920s, regulators have imposed content restrictions under the theory that broadcasters have been licensed to use a scarce, publicly owned resource: the airwaves. But the media have changed, argues Dan Kennedy, and the government does not recognize this.

Mayor Under Fire, but Paper Feeling Heat Too (LAT)
Spokane's James West is accused of sex abuse, but many are asking whether the Spokane Spokesman-Review was justified in lying in a bid to get the truth.

New York: 'Little' Films Grow Big (NYT)
David Carr: New York has quietly been emerging as the world's primary clearinghouse for a fast-expanding pool of very-low-budget movies.

Sac Bee Reporter Resigns Amid Source Inquiry (Sac Bee via Romenesko)
Diana Griego Erwin resigned Wednesday amid an internal inquiry into whether some people mentioned in several recent columns actually existed.

Taibbi on Spanking the Donkey (Salon)
Gonzo journalist Matt Taibbi will do anything to bring political reporting back to life.

The Hungry Mind (LAT)
With memoirs from food celebs selling like Big Macs, we've worked up a voracious appetite for the Next Big Thing: serious—and seriously readable—food literature. Anyone who wrote off food books as the equivalent of romance novels should be amazed to see how much interest there is not just in food but in how food works.

A Technical Guide for Editing Gonzo (CJR)
Bob Love: I never drank with Hunter, nor did I do drugs with him, but I was his editor on about a dozen pieces over three decades and with three magazines.

'Mr. Sharon Stone' is a Journalist, Too (E&P)
In the last few years, Chronicle editor Phil Bronstein has endured a controversial newspaper merger, a celebrity marriage and its public end, and a reptile attack on his foot. But through it all, the former overseas reporter has stayed on top in San Francisco.

—John Ghazvinian