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Big Bird Saved From Guillotine (AP via Yahoo!)
PBS and NPR won a reprieve as the House restored $100 million that had been proposed as a budget cut for the Corporation for Public Broadcasting. NYT: Public Broadcasting chief is named, raising concerns. LAT: 87 House Republicans join Democrats in voting to scale back proposed reductions in funding.

Male Sweat Sells Mags (New Scientist)
The best place to sell magazines could be the gym locker room, according to a study which found that pheromones in male sweat makes men opt for a manly read.

Dazed Today Pulls Back Up (Variety)
The NBC morning show opened up a lead of 732,000 viewers over ABC's Good Morning America last week, offering a respite from the ratings heartburn and bad press that has plagued the show.

Budget Living Exodus Continues (NYP)
The magazine's staff got the word last night that acting editor Alex Bhattacharji is leaving in mid-July. He had been a close friend of award-winning launch editor Sarah Gray Miller, who resigned in April. WWD: While Bhattacharji was expected to serve as the magazine's top editor going forward, he chose to resign instead.

Gang Gone (Hollywood Reporter via Netscape)
CNN's political roundtable Capital Gang has reached the end of the road as the cable net attempts to retool itself in content and ratings under the leadership of president Jonathan Klein.

Pioneering Journo Shana Alexander Dies (AP via Seattle P-I)
Alexander was the first female staff writer and columnist at Life and gained pop-culture status in the 1970s as the liberal voice on the "Point/Counterpoint" segment on 60 Minutes.

G+J Biz Mags Sale Still Pending (Folio)
The stock price of reported buyer Joe Mansueto's Morningstar, Inc. has fallen 7 percent since Friday and roughly 5 percent since news of the pending sale broke on Monday.

Celeb Hype at the Tipping Point? (WaPo)
Eugene Robinson: Celebrity "journalism" is in overdrive—more magazines, more pictures, more everything. This is "irrational exuberance" all over again.

Hillary Book Has Unexpected Critics (NYT)
Ed Klein's fast-selling, unflattering biography of Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton is drawing fire from some prominent conservative commentators, including Peggy Noonan and Bill O'Reilly.

Net to Newspapers: Drop Dead (Business Week)
Jon Fine: The new and troubling reality for newspapers is that even if they excel as purveyors of information to appreciative audiences, they still face tough business terrain.

ABC Flinches (Huffington Post)
Last week ABC canceled a story about a dangerous chemical in child inoculations. Last night, the network broadcast a recut version of the story edited into a piece of industry propaganda.

'Fair and Balanced' Portfolio? (Slate)
Fox News' plan for a business news network may seem like something of a suicide mission. But it's an open question whether Roger Ailes can replicate his Fox News success in business news.

Only Pretty Pictures (NYT)
Britain's state broadcaster, the BBC, said it would use a time delay mechanism in live coverage of some news events to prevent broadcasting "really distressing, upsetting images."

Site Unseen (LAT)
The Web is a freewheeling medium that gives any interest an audience. But as advertisers to capitalize on those audiences they increasingly find their brands popping up in the Internet's darkest corners.

Requiem for a Slimed Reporter (LA Weekly)
Nikki Finke: Being a good Hollywood journalist means having a double dose of all those qualities that make a person insufferable. That, in a nutshell, was veteran movie industry reporter Anita Busch.

Ebert Stars in Own Show (Chicago Sun-Times)
Roger Ebert, the nation's first Pulitzer Prize-winning film critic, was honored yesterday with the first star on the Hollywood "Walk of Fame" ever given to a film critic.

Messy Semester for Media (Marketwatch)
Jon Friedman: In an extremely unscientific and highly subjective assessment, here is my list of the Top Ten media events since the start of the year.

Paris Store Apologizes to Oprah (BBC)
Luxury French boutique Hermes refused the billionaire media queen entry to one of their outlets in Paris. A friend of Winfrey said it was "one of the most humiliating moments of her life".

Judith Miller Sets Sights on U.N. (AlterNet)
Russ Baker: The longtime NYT star reporter has a formidable track record of egregious violations of journalistic standards, and a habit of sending the public on wild goose chases.

—David S. Hirschman