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Behind Bush's Fury at NYT, a Vow Made in 2001 (NYT)
The government has made no secret of its efforts to hunt down the bank accounts of Al Qaeda and its allies. But that fact has not muted the fury of the President, his top aides and many members of Congress at the decision by newspapers to disclose a centerpiece of that hunt. E&P: Times veterans Frankel and Jones defend paper's banking story.

View to a Kill (USAT)
Star Jones Reynolds says she is "disheartened" by how she has been treated by ABC and The View in recent months and that their promises that her departure would be handled with "great dignity" turned into a "circus." NYDN: "Barbara did not call me herself," Jones said, bitterly. "After nine years, she didn't call me. They told me my contract would not be renewed because my approval rating had gone down." WaPo: A day after The View executive producer Barbara Walters billed and cooed, she opened yesterday's show by sticking a shiv in Star's gullet.

Radar Revived ... Again (NYT)
This is the third incarnation for Radar in three years, and this time all the sass will come in increments. First, there will be Radar the Web site, which is to begin by mid-August. Then, early next year the editors plan to start publishing a print edition, most likely 6 to 10 times a year.

Couric on Cronkite (B&C)
Incoming CBS Evening News anchor Katie Couric has signed on to narrate an upcoming American Masters segment on Walter Cronkite. The episode, premiering July 26, will include interviews with Ben Bradlee, Tom Brokaw, Helen Thomas, and Barbara Walters.

VF Planning Mega Style Issue for September (WWD)
Expect Vanity Fair to be almost as thick as Vogue — i.e., phone book size — come September. Fashion and style director Michael Roberts, who joined the magazine from The New Yorker in April, is collaborating with editor in chief Graydon Carter on a special Style issue for September. Guardian: The magazine's London editor, Henry Porter, yesterday angrily wrote to the Metropolitan police commissioner, Sir Ian Blair, over an incident in which police appeared to claim that an article in the magazine constituted "politically motivated material."

KR Web Site Gone; McClatchy Prepares to Integrate Digital Division (E&P)
One day after McClatchy's acquisition of Knight Ridder, visitors to the Knight Ridder corporate home page were redirected to McClatchy's Web site. It remains unclear, however, how McClatchy plans to integrate KR's digital division into the fold. CJR Daily: Bloggers react to KR demise.

Google Aims to Speed the Online Checkout Line (NYT)
Google now wants to keep track of your credit card number and where you live. The company is introducing Google Checkout today, a service that will allow users to make purchases from online stores using payment and shipping information they keep on file with Google. Mediaweek: "We don't view it as a stand-alone business," said Ben Ling, Google product manager.

Veoh Faces Copyright Suit, a Test of Web Video (WSJ)
Adult entertainment company Io Group filed a lawsuit against Veoh Networks, an online video-sharing service, for copyright infringement. Veoh has prominent backers, including Time Warner Inc. and former Walt Disney Co. chief executive Michael Eisner, who sits on its board.

Protest Strike at Paris Match (NYP)
Journalists at the influential French newsweekly have voted to stage a one-day strike today in a protest over the ouster of the editor-in-chief by the parent company, Hachette Filipacchi Media.

Former Procter & Gamble Chief Named Disney Chair (NYT)
John E. Pepper Jr. has been appointed nonexecutive chairman, succeeding George Mitchell, the former Maine senator who took the job in 2004 when former Disney chief executive Michael Eisner was stripped of the chairman's title after a shareholder revolt.

Group: Garry Trudeau Bigoted, Anti-Polish (NYDN)
The New York branch of the Polish American Congress claims Trudeau "demeaned Polish-Americans," with a Doonesbury character named Kaminski, who receives his college diploma by overcoming "the worst skill deficiencies in reaching the minimum threshold of achievement."

Podcasting After iTunes (Wired)
Apple reported 1 million downloads of podcasts in the first 48 hours of last year's June 28 launch and now will only say that "millions and millions" of episodes of the 60,000-plus shows listed on the site are downloaded each month.

Pinch at Party: a News Scoop Lasts About a Nanosecond (Beet TV)
At a Paid Content party, New York Times publisher Arthur Sulzberger Jr. addressed the controversy surrounding the paper's publication of a story about international banking data. He says that unlike the issues around publication of the Pentagon Papers, prior consent no longer applies. FBNY: Coverage of the PaidContent soirée.

Issues Crop Up In Satellite Radio Recording (LAT)
Users of XM's "Inno" have the ability — while on the go — to save individual songs that can be later mixed with downloaded tracks from a user's personal collection. It can also record whole shows off the satellite that can be made part of a mix for later listening.

Journo Almost Jailed for Korean War Germ Warfare Scoop Still Believes It's True (SFBG)
John Powell's was one of the most extraordinary criminal cases in San Francisco in the last century — and it laid the foundation for later investigations that revealed one of the greatest secrets of World War II, a secret the U.S. government wanted to keep hidden forever.

Haditha, My Lai, and the Media (E&P)
In the wake of the Haditha incident in Iraq, references to the 1968 massacre in Vietnam have often appeared — but few in the press have actually reexamined My Lai. After a close study of the My Lai episode, and how it emerged in the press, a special report finds several chilling links to Haditha.