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Isikoff: Mea Culpa (AP via Globe and Mail)
Michael Isikoff, addressing the furor over his retracted Newsweek article alleging that U.S. interrogators desecrated the Koran, said he dropped the ball by not properly corroborating his anonymous source. LAT Editorial: Bill O'Reilly goes ballistic, fantasizing that terrorists might "grab" the Los Angeles Times editorial and opinion editor "out of his little house and… cut his head off." E&P: Ben Bradlee on Newsweek sourcing debacle.

Beat Happening (Reuters)
A previously unknown play by Jack Kerouac, written in the same year as his beatnik classic novel On The Road was published, has been discovered languishing in a warehouse more than three decades after his death.

Beeb Braces for More Strike Chaos Next Week (Guardian)
Thousands of BBC staff returned to work this morning, but viewers and listeners face two more days of severe disruption to live programs next week with unions saying there were no signs yet of concessions from management. NYT: Although the BBC tried to keep its programs on the air yesterday, it had to curtail or cancel much of its live television and radio coverage because of the strike.

UnfAir America? (NYP)
In papers filed in Manhattan Supreme Court, Lizz Winstead, best known as co-creator of Comedy Central's The Daily Show, says she was fired, then screwed out of nearly $300,000.

BP the Latest to Institute Ad-Pull Policy (Ad Age)
Only days after financial services giant Morgan Stanley informed print publications that its ads must be automatically pulled from any edition containing "objectionable editorial coverage," global energy giant BP has adopted a similar press strategy.

Gender Bender on Cable (Variety)
The Sundance Channel has greenlit TransGeneration, an eight-episode original documentary series focusing on four college students who are getting sex-change operations.

Culture Crash (AP via E&P)
The National Arts Journalism Program, founded in 1994 at Columbia University to advance the quality of arts coverage in the press, will close due to lack of funds. LAT: Once almighty arbiters of American taste, critics find their power at ebb tide. Is it a dark time for the arts, or the dawn of a new age, asks Scott Timberg.

Jeopardy! Whiz to Get Own Show (USAT)
Comedy Central said Monday it has signed Ken Jennings to be the central figure in a new game show the channel is developing with Michael Davies, the producer behind Who Wants to Be a Millionaire. WaPo: "I was fixated by Ken," Davies tells Lisa de Moraes. "One reason: You can tell how nice this guy was, very nice, very normal, meek young guy. But nobody can win 74 straight games unless he's a vicious competitor. I loved that dichotomy."

Paris, Rants (LAT)
A new commercial shows a scantily clad Paris Hilton cavorting with a water hose as she washes a black Bentley, then taking a bite out of a new Carl's Jr. hamburger, and the ad's blatant sexual overtones are getting under the skin of critics, who say it sets a new low in TV advertising.

Advertising Big Predicts Network Losses (NYP)
Ad expert Jack Myers lowered his estimates for spending on both broadcast and cable television yesterday after offering a much rosier forecast just a month earlier.

Black Book Fades to Black? (Page Six)
Owner Ari Horowitz is reported to be "desperately" trying to sell the magazine and has approached several players—all of whom have turned him down.

FCC Addresses Cable Reach (B&C)
The FCC believes that the 1992 Cable Act still gives it authority to limit national reach, and the agency is also examining whether to change its vertical limits, including rules barring an operator from devoting more than 40 percent of its lineup to programming it owns.

PC Mag Names New Publisher (Mediaweek)
Ziff Davis Media has hired Jim McCabe to become vice president and publisher of PC Magazine. McCabe will oversee the mag, as well as new spinoffs ExtremeTech and DigitalLife.

Author Abandoning Teen Dish Goldmine (New York Mag)
The notorious, best-selling Gossip Girl series laid bare the titillating, too-much-too-soon world of private-school Manhattan. But what will happen now that its creator is moving on to new obsessions?

'Fucked Company' Mogul Grows Into Ad Guru (LAT)
Philip Kaplan got rich on his edgy mockery of failing dot-coms. Now he has a "legit" start-up of his own, complete with venture capital backing.

Portrait of the Donald as a Young Man (WaPo)
Tom Shales: A movie with the title Trump Unauthorized hardly sounds like the sure-fire treat of the year, and its implicit promise of scandalous poop isn't kept; Trump is shown to be cold, ruthless, and megalomaniacal at times, but that shouldn't shock anyone. NYT: Britney's reality show disappoints, erring on the side of sleazy. Made-for-TV movies on Donald Trump and Amber Frey offer only physical likenesses, writes Alessandra Stanley.

Death by a Thousand Blogs (NYT)
Nicholas Kristof: The Chinese Communist Party survived a brutal civil war with the Nationalists, battles with American forces in Korea and massive pro-democracy demonstrations at Tiananmen Square. But now it may finally have met its match—the Internet.

Enough With Media Navel-Gazing? (WaPo)
Eugene Robinson: I propose that the media spend less of their finite, precious resources doing what I'm doing right now: covering the media. No, I don't want to put all the media writers out of business. Yes, there are days when the making or unmaking of the story is the story. But please, not every day.

Housewives 'Preachy and Banal' (Slate)
Matt Feeney: Desperate Housewives began last September as a wonderful guilty pleasure, but has, by May, turned into something strangely embarrassing. It was set up for the letdown by the pretensions of its creator.

Reality TV Rejects (AP via ABC News)
During a past season of NBC's The Apprentice, fired candidates and their chaperones populated half a hotel floor for the duration of the two-month shoot, which included a communal suite filled with food, beer, video games, DVDs, and books.

Journos Stand Alone Against Apple (Boston Globe)
Alex Beam: Apple Computer is suing journalist Nicholas Ciarelli for disclosing secrets on his Apple news website Think Secret. But Ciarelli is accused of doing exactly what reporters all over America are supposed to be doing: finding and publishing information that institutions don't want to reveal.

No Life After Costanza (Fox News)
Mike Straka: Jason Alexander's second sitcom since the uber-successful Seinfeld has gone off the air. Listen Up was cancelled by CBS last week, just as Alexander's new children's book Dad, Are You the Tooth Fairy? hits bookshelves.

Marketers Take a Shine to Blogs (Reuters via CNN)
Four journalists who brought news of the assassination of President John F. Kennedy into U.S. living rooms in 1963 are among a growing group of people exploring the potential of blogs as a marketing tool and advertising venue.

This Much is Tru (Page Six)
If you spot a pristine, red 1968 Mustang convertible cruising around the Hamptons this summer with the license plate "CAPOTE," you're not seeing a ghost. The novelist's classic car has been lovingly restored.

Longtime Journalism Professor, Newsman Feldman Dead (AP via S.J. Mercury News)
Sam Feldman, a former newspaper reporter and editor who taught journalism classes at California State University, Northridge, for 25 years, has died at 73.

News Media and "the Madness of Militarism" (FAIR)
Norman Solomon: Media activism has achieved a lot. But I don't believe there's anything to be satisfied with—considering the present-day realities of corporate media and the warfare state.

—David S. Hirschman