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Prosecutor: Cooper, Miller Should Be Jailed (AP)
Special Counsel Patrick Fitzgerald urged a judge to reject requests from New York Times writer Judith Miller and Time reporter Matthew Cooper for home detention instead of jail. WaPo: Fitzgerald's arguments set the stage for a historic showdown in federal court between the government and the news media this afternoon. NYT: In yesterday's filing, Fitzgerald suggested that criminal prosecution was also a possibility. E&P: Karl Rove is using journalists, and the First Amendment, "to operate without constraint, or to camouflage breaking the law," writes Bill Israel. CJR Daily: How Time Inc. covered its Plame capitulation in this week's issue. Boston Globe: Partisan politics taint Fitzgerald's prosecution of the Plame case, writes Robert Kuttner. Newsday: If you take away a reporter's being able to protect the confidentiality of the source, we'll all be rewriting press releases, writes Ellis Henican. The Nation: Don't be so quick to point the finger at Rove, writes David Corn.

CBS News to Explore 'Storytelling' (LAT)
Faced with a mandate to remake the nightly news broadcast, Andrew Heyward has commissioned staffers to come up with approaches that would favor a storytelling style over the traditional format.

FT, WSJ Named 'Best Newspapers' (Reuters)
The Financial Times topped a list of the world's best newspapers, according to a survey of executives, politicians, university lecturers, journalists and advertising professionals conducted by a Swiss-based consultant.

NBC, Ebersol Proud of Nabbing 2010, 2012 Olympics (NYT)
NBC has committed to pay $820 million for the Vancouver Games in 2010, and $1.18 billion—the most for an Olympics—for the 2012 Games, which will be held in London.

Bob Woodward Revisits Parking Garage for NBC Special (E&P)
The Watergate journalist said Tom Brokaw interviewed him for about three-and-a-half hours, including 30 minutes in the famous parking garage in nearby Rosslyn, Va., where he met his secret source, W. Mark Felt, several times during his reporting for the story. Boston Globe: Woodward's account is eye-opening as he describes the slow and tortuous building of trust between two men who brought the web of deceit into public light, writes David Gergen. NYT: While "The Secret Man" yields yet another angle on the perennial puzzle of Watergate, it does not provide political junkies with much hard news, writes Michiko Kakutani.

Times Employees to Get More Ethical (L. A. Observed)
Reporters at the paper aren't too happy about a new requirement in the newsroom. They are being asked by the company to take time out to complete a new course in ethics and submit to a quiz.

Conservative Radio Hosts Head to Iraq (Fox News)
Several conservative talk radio hosts are headed to Iraq this month on a mission to report "the truth" about the war: American troops are winning, despite headlines to the contrary in the "liberal media."

Disney Planning to Get Into Cellphones (WSJ)
Walt Disney Co. announced that it is entering the cellular business, targeting families with a wireless service under its own brand that will seek to sell cellphones to children and their parents.

Who Makes the Deals in Mags World? (N.Y. Sun)
Myrna Blyth: Why are there so many deals happening now? "The strategic players"—publishing companies that buy magazines to keep in their portfolio for the long term—"have virtually disappeared," said Roland DeSilva.

Study: Unclear How Media Affects Teen Sex (Washington Times)
There is more sex in the mass media, and teens are logging more hours of exposure, but little is known about how teens react to such sexual imagery, according to an article in the new issue of the Journal of Pediatrics. Boulder Weekly: Porn goes pop.

TV News Directors Ponder Dangers of Reporting From the Field (B&C)
Around the country, local stations are installing expensive new tape-delay equipment, scouting locations in advance and warning camera crews about the potential for indecent shots due to the FCC's recent crackdown on indecency offensives.

Epic Seattle Newspaper Battle Continues (Seattle Weekly)
Phillip Dawdy: Last week's ruling on the joint operating agreement (JOA) between The Seattle Times and Hearst Corp.'s Seattle Post-Intelligencer did little to resolve whether Seattle will have one or two daily newspapers.

Martha Went to Web Seeking to Dismantle Ankle Bracelet (NYDN)
No matter what they say, there's no getting used to it, because it hurts. It irritates you," domestic diva Martha Stewart told Vanity Fair in an interview in which she also revealed that fellow prisoners nicknamed her "M. Diddy."

Media Bigs Touch Down in Sun Valley (NYP)
While in the past the Sun Valley confab has been a fertile breeding ground for deals, this year the attendees are not likely to be in deal-making mode.

Young Journos Rise Fast in Egyptian Press (NYT)
The newly appointed editors of Egypt's largest state-owned newspapers are mostly younger and ostensibly more reform-minded.

The Name They Dared Not Speak (CJR)
Douglas McCallum: Anonymous sources were once the journalist's trusty sidekick, helping midwife vital stories that might otherwise have been stillborn. But now civic-minded editors and consultants have the broom out and are swatting at "anonymice."

Bonnie Fuller Urine-in-Coffee Myth Debunked? (NYDN)
Freelance writer Corynne Steindler says she was the intern who picked up the coffee six times a day for Bonnie Fuller, and that the report "is just not a believable story."

U.K. 'Masturbation Ad' Nixed (Guardian)
A watch advertisement featuring a naked woman that ran in the British edition of Glamour magazine was offensive because it implied she was masturbating, ruled the Advertising Standard Authority.

—David S. Hirschman

IN YESTERDAY'S MB BLOGS:

What Does CNN Have In The Pipeline? [TVNewser]
Exclusive: CNN's forthcoming broadband channel, known internally as "CNN Pipeline," will feature 12 live hours of newscasts every weekday when it launches later this year.

The Inner Woodward [FishbowlDC]
The Post's Bob Thompson devotes most of a page in today's Style section to reading into Bob Woodward's new book. The article begins "It may well have been reported before, but it was certainly news to me that Bob Woodward once got so drunk he couldn't walk" and only gets more interesting as it examines the pathology of Woodward's personality and his career track.

Is Howard Kurtz Indulging in Useless Speculation About Whether Journalists Are Indulging in Useless Speculation? [FishbowlNY]
It's true, we all love the workaholic and fair-minded media maven Howie Kurtz. But this week he went off on an inexplicable tear against the media, pushing the notion that the media looked dumb for predicting a Rehnquist resignation and indulging in "useless speculation" about SDO's successor.

Kaus: Harcourt Scared to Rock [FishbowlLA]
Noted pundit/mix-CD-burner Mickey Kaus risks Los Angeles quasi-hipster media-professional pariah-hood by slamming Nic Harcourt in the wake of last weekend's glowing NYT Magazine profile.

Critical Consumption [Galleycat]
The London Times talks to writers about their most vicious reviews, written or received. John Banville recounts being reviewed by a critic who "would review books on the basis of the author's photograph on the back cover;" Ben MacIntyre, the victim of a cruel review by John Carey, remembers "plotting complicated ways of murdering [the]Professor"; and A.N. Wilson recalls meeting a writer he reviewed who could quote the entire nasty thing by heart.

This Book Is Not a Tree [UnBeige]
As much as we spent some of the more sordid years of our adolescence claiming to want to help out with the housecleaning so we could revel in the sweet sweet pathos of that particular Clorox high, now that we're older, wiser, and can afford one more rung on the substance ladder, Green Clean shows us how to do it up natural.

Covering Cover Letters [mbToolbox]
Once you prepare your resume, you need to move on to the cover letter. No surpise, Mediabistro Resume Revamper Alex Twersky has good advice: A cover letter is not a design exercise; it's a vehicle to concisely and coherently introduce the reader to the subject of your resume and why they should read it.