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Judged Judy Jailed (NYT)
New York Times reporter Judith Miller was sent to jail yesterday after a federal judge declared she was "defying the law" by refusing to reveal a confidential source in the Valerie Plame leak case. WSJ: Time magazine's Matthew Cooper opts to testify; Miller will be in prison until October unless she breaks her silence. E&P: Husband says Miller was prepared for sentence. Slate: Sticking up for Miller and Cooper. E&P: Miller imprisoned in "new generation" jail that also houses Zacharias Moussaoui. LAT: Cooper said that his source gave him a waiver hours before the hearing. NYO: One staffer asked Time EIC Norman Pearlstine whether a source with confidential documents such as the Pentagon Papers would be willing to come to a magazine. NYT: Miller had long anticipated the possibility of jailtime. WaPo: Cooper told the judge he said goodbye to his 6-year-old son and was expecting to go to jail. Salon: Real victim may be a free press. WaPo: Journalists find themselves defending an abstract principle in a case in which the sources are not corporate and government whistle-blowers but rather political insiders seemingly bent on partisan mischief. NYT Editorial: A "proud but awful" time for the paper. WaPo Editorial: "A damaging blow to the press's ability to do its job." Salon: Beltway insiders are consumed by one question: Did Karl Rove do it? Reason: Three simple solutions to Miller's problem. MosNews: Russia says Miller jailing violates press freedom (uh, pot calling kettle). Wired: Who's to blame for Plame game, asks Adam Penenberg.

London Blasts Send Media Scrambling (Guardian)
The British newsmedia today rushed to respond to a series of explosions in central London as initial reports of a tube collision gave way to suggestions of a terrorist attack.

MTV Stung by Live 8 Criticism (LAT)
MTV's handling of the concerts was faulted for frequent cutaways from key musical moments to go to commercials, offstage banter or less compelling performances elsewhere. WaPo: Live 8 was dead weight for ABC.

NBC's Aging Audience (USAT)
Losing Friends didn't just send NBC into a ratings spiral; it also aged the network's prime-time audience, which hit its highest median age ever, 48, in the 2004-05 season.

Radio Ad Sales Up Marginally (Mediaweek)
Year-to-date, national advertising, about 20 percent of radio's total, is pacing ahead of local sales, up 2 percent compared to 1 percent for local.

Sun Valley 'Not the Same' Without Harvey (NYP)
In years past Weinstein, the ex-Miramax boss, was a familiar sight strolling the grounds, usually unshaven and chain-smoking—a colorful contrast to the gaggle of fit, polo-shirt clad moguls.

Carpe Diem at Today (NYT)
As the new executive producer of the Today show on NBC, Jim Bell is in charge of the most profitable program on network television, and is facing puzzles big and small.

Chron Braces for Strike (SFC)
Contracts covering 1,500 workers at the paper and its online unit, SFGate.com, expired Friday. Negotiations are under way with several unions over a range of issues, including possible staff cuts.

Feuer's Tense Times (NYDN)
Lloyd Grove: Things are still tense around the office for reporter Alan Feuer, whose all-too-candid account of his 2003 stint in Iraq put some very important noses out of joint. [Second item.]

Checkbook Closed at HBO (Boston Globe)
"We will not pay for an interview," said HBO spokesman Ray Stallone. "That includes some of the tricks that have gone on in the business, such as paying to license photos from you. It's a firm policy."

Taking Cover (NYT)
When a book hits stores with a cover nearly identical to another's, it's the publishing equivalent of arriving at a party wearing the same dress as the hostess.

Limbaugh Medical Records Released (AP via NYT)
A judge released some medical records of conservative commentator Rush Limbaugh to prosecutors, allowing them to pursue an investigation into whether he illegally bought painkillers.

TV Justice Queen for Supremes? (NYDN)
Richard Cohen: Over the weekend I went to a party, where I was asked who I thought should succeed Sandra Day O'Connor on the Supreme Court. Without hesitation I boldly gave my answer: Judge Judy.

Biz Buzz en Español (NYDN)
Fast-rising personal finance preacher Julie Stav, the host of Univision's national radio talk show Tu Dinero con Julie Stav, is obsessed with improving listeners' financial health.

Media Warping Watergate (Boston Phoenix)
Mark Jurkowitz: How did "Deep Throat" become a non-heroic figure? Blame it on the Crossfire culture which mandates that every subject be debated and rehashed along partisan lines. MSNBC: Woodward hints at content of NBC special. NYO: Woodward's tome "absorbingly anticlimactic," writes Mark Feeney.

Press Feigns Invisibility (CJR Daily)
Journalists are too often reluctant to admit in print that the story they're writing may affect the issue they're covering. That reluctance is manifest in everything from style to content.

Wine Review Mag Cultivates Following (Boston Globe)
Among the oldest of wine magazines, the Quarterly Review of Wines usually has more than 20 features in each issue primarily about wine, but also about spirits and cigars.

Media Misreport Howard Beach Incident? (Men's News Daily)
Nicholas Stix: Calling stories that have little in common "eerily similar" is a hoary reporter's cliche. But even Howard Beach wasn't what the that the media and politicians' story would have you believe.

King of Cool (Toronto Star)
As the editor-in-chief of the year-old lifestyle glossies Vitals, Joe Zee, at 36, is the newly anointed king of cool. His ascension is the result of a fashion career spent separating the perfect from the near-perfect, the cool from the not-so-much.

—David S. Hirschman

IN YESTERDAY'S MB BLOGS:

FNC's Harrigan Not the First in the Cellblocks [TVNewser]
Fox News correspondent Steve Harrigan toured the cellblocks of Guantanamo Bay, and lived to blog about it—but he's wrong when he says he was the first reporter to do so.

A Dispatch from Monica Beach [FishbowlDC]
The area in front of the E. Barrett Prettyman Courthouse in Washington has been the scene of many a press stakeout—its unofficial nickname, Monica Beach, came from the many days reporters spent standing on the plaza waiting for developments in the Ken Starr investigation during the Clinton years. Today, with two reporters ready to go to jail, was no different.

Lunch at Michael's [FishbowlNY]
Court TV's Henry Schleiff made a grand entrance. Upon seeing his lunch guest (Alex Ben Block of TV Week) sitting alone, he exclaimed: "Not since Thomas Jefferson dined alone has there been so much intelligence at one table!" But before taking his seat, he strode over to Fox News' Roger Ailes' table(Roger was seated with arch-enemy Jon Klein, Pres of CNN), slapped both men five and yelled: "Breaking news. Dewey lost!"

Leykis Sued Lamely [FishbowlLA]
In yet another instance of the rights of journalists being trampled by the courts, Tom Leykis is getting sued for denying him the right to participate in the glorious public forum that is the Tom Leykis Show based on his age.

Bait and Switch [UnBeige]
It's not just basketball. The Nets stadium development in Brooklyn turns out to have actually been a stealth 17-building plan, thanks to wily Bruce Ratner(we always mix him up with the way cooler Brett) and Frank Gehry, whose business card we recently heard reads simply "Frank."

Keeping Busy When Work Slows Down [mbToolbox]
I've been a full-time freelancer for seven years, and I have always had at least one assignment. Every now and again, things slow down and I have ONLY one assignment. It's a nice break, until the panic about cash flow sets in.