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Dems Call for the Head of Karl Rove (NYT)
Officials faced a barrage of queries about whether Deputy White House Chief of Staff Karl Rove disclosed the identity of an undercover CIA agent to reporters, and whether he might lose his job. Salon: The Bush administration said it would fire anyone involved in outing Valerie Plame. Even Karl Rove? E&P: White House reporters "batter" spokesman Scott McClellan with questions about Rove-Plame leak. Slate: There is no moral case for keeping Karl Rove on the government payroll, writes Timothy Noah. WaPo: Democrats began a campaign to pressure Rove to give up his security clearances, answer questions before Congress and even resign. LAT: The new information about Rove's role is emerging as a potential embarrassment for the White House. WSJ: The amplified Democratic attacks suggest that the White House and Rove will face turbulence in the days ahead whatever the outcome of Patrick Fitzgerald's criminal probe.

BBC Won't Call Bombers 'Terrorists' (Telegraph)
Early reporting of the attacks on the BBC's website spoke of terrorists but the same coverage was changed to describe the attackers simply as "bombers." Guardian: BBC "regrets" showing pictures of people injured in the bombings. AlterNet: Many Arab journalists claim that as long as the United States and Britain are occupying Iraq, more attacks are inevitable.

Budget Reprieve for PBS (NYT)
Two senior members of the Senate Appropriations Committee endorsed overturning proposed cuts to the agency's budget, while the chairman of the CPB denied accusations of political bias. WaPo: New ombudsmen praise programming on public TV, radio. CJR Daily: Tomlinson expands witch hunt.

FEC Hears Bloggers' Bid to Share Media Exemption (WaPo)
They go to the political conventions. They cover the White House. Now, some bloggers want the same special protections from campaign finance laws that the mainstream media enjoy.

Newspapers Warming to Idea of Reporters' Blogs (WSJ)
U.S. newspapers are wrestling with whether it is appropriate for reporters to be opining in such forums, and how much, if at all, their posts should be edited.

LAT: No Source Names on Computers (E&P)
A new directive to staffers at the paper tells them to avoid identifying anonymous sources in computer files or e-mails—a clear reaction to last week's jailing of reporter Judith Miller. E&P: Not all "confidential" sources created equal at Gannett.

Time Warner May Drop AMC (Newsday)
Justice Bernard Fried of State Supreme Court in Manhattan said Time Warner Cable, the second-biggest cable operator in the nation, has the right to cancel its contract to carry the AMC network.

E.U. Wants to Regulate TV on the Web (The Times)
Europe is considering regulating areas such as taste and decency, accuracy and impartiality for internet broadcasters, as well as relaxing rules about the frequency and amount of advertising on TV.

Comedy Central Acquires Scrubs Rerun Rights (Reuters)
The cable network has acquired the first four seasons (93 episodes) and will also buy the upcoming fifth season. It declined comment on the license fee or the length of the agreement.

Date Set for Cannon Blast of HST Ashes (AP via Chicago Sun-Times)
The cremated remains of the gonzo jounalist who committed suicide this year will be shot into the air Aug. 20 from a cannon installed on a 150-foot-high tower behind his home in Woody Creek, Colo.

Publisher Fighting Canadian Harry Potter Leak (CTV)
Rowling's sixth novel about the young wizard is not scheduled to be released until Saturday, but a Vancouver grocery store accidentally sold 14 copies of the book last week. Reuters: Teen wins competition to interview J. K. Rowling.

Media-Studies Pop Quiz (Ad Age)
Simon Dumenco: We've got some serious work to do here, people, and I'm concerned that some of you are just not keeping up. So I've decided we're having a media-studies pop quiz. Right now.

China's Bid to Control the Web (Slate)
Countries like China are pushing hard to divide that global network into a system of Balkanized national networks with restrictive measures that are taking place quietly—and quietly succeeding. Reuters: EBay expects its China transaction volume to jump 30 percent or more in 2005. Chronicle of Higher Education: Aided by the Internet and the market economy, Chinese intellectuals are speaking out—and paying a price. CRI: China will spend about 36 million dollars to build the first "journalist martyrs" cemetery.

Imus Sued for Libel (AP via Yahoo!)
Dr. Howard Allen Pearson says in court papers that on at least four days last year, Don Imus said on air that he "was one of the worst doctors in the world and did not care if children suffered."

Worth 1000 Words? (NYDN)
Lloyd Grove: MSNBC President Rick Kaplan has summarily removed Dan Abrams' poster-size portrait from the lobby of the cable outlet's headquarters in Secaucus—and replaced it with Rita Cosby's.

Publisher Byron Preiss Dies (The Book Standard)
Byron C. Preiss, president of Byron Preiss Visual Publications and ibooks and a trailblazer in multimedia and digital publishing, died in a traffic accident on Saturday.

Ad Veep at Wasington Examiner Axed (WaPo)
The paper, one of two free daily tabloids owned by Denver billionaire Philip F. Anschutz, has replaced its vice president of advertising, the second senior personnel shuffle since the paper launched.

Clear Channel Building Evacuated for Suspicious Package (Plain Dealer)
A sweet-smelling package forced 400 people—including employees of six radio stations—out of an office building Monday afternoon after six workers complained of nausea.

—David S. Hirschman

IN YESTERDAY'S MB BLOGS:

Hurricane Dennis Coverage Notes #6 [TVNewser]
"Now take a look the images coming from the BLOOM MOBILE compared to CNN's videophone!," an NBCer exclaimed this morning. "Martin is using it this morning to report while driving through the destruction in Florida"

Time for Questions [FishbowlDC]
Contention reigns today at the White House press briefings. After many rounds of questions re: Rove, David Gregory said that Scott McClellan's stonewalling was "ridiculous."

Hurricanes and Supreme Court Justices Love Karl Rove [FishbowlNY]
Guess what CNN isn't talking about today? We'd never knowingly utter the name but it rhymes with "Schmarl Schmove." No "Reliable Sources" today, or anything else; CNN is all-hurricane all the time.

Los Angeles Confidential Confidential [FishbowlLA]
Wow, Los Angeles Confidential is a big magazine. Not 'big' in the sense of 'widely-read' or 'influential', but in the sense that if you roll it up, you could club a baby seal with it.

Gossip from the Heartland [Galleycat]
According to an in-the-know Iowa MFA-er, new Workshop Director Lan Samantha Chang owes her job to faculty member Marilynne Robinson. Students and alumni overwhelmingly preferred finalist Ben Marcus, as did the search committee saddled with the task of finding Frank Conroy's replacement.

Either This Wallpaper Goes Or I Blog [UnBeige]
The current July/August issue of Wallpaper* includes the Annual Design Directory, which doesn't honestly seem that much different from other issues except the paper isn't so shiny.

List Service [mbToolbox]
Feel like you don't have enough outlets to share your own creative writing? Ms. Annie Logue shared with me the Creative Writing Opportunities Listserv via Topica.