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Governator's Conflict of Interest With Fitness Mags (LAT)
Days before he was sworn in, California Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger accepted a job paying $8 million to "further the business objectives" of a publisher of health and bodybuilding magazines.

Out of the Frying Pan, Martha on Fire (NYP)
Domestic diva, reality show star, mag magnate, and convicted felon Martha Stewart has snagged a $2 million book deal from South Beach Diet publisher Rodale to write a how-to business book.

GOP Congressman: Russert, Others in Media 'Should Be Shot,' Not Rove (E&P)
Rep. Peter King, a Republican from New York, said Tim Russert and others gave Joe Wilson a free ride and are unfairly going after Karl Rove. E&P: White House spokesman Scott McClellan continues stonewalling on Rove involvement in Plame leak. NYT: Bush withholds judgment on Rove. WaPo: Cooper testifies. LAT: Cooper to disclose testimony in Time article. Newsweek: Judith Miller is a worthy defendant, writes Eleanor Clift. Salon: This is Karl Rove's war. From his command post next to the Oval Office in the West Wing of the White House, he is furiously directing the order of battle, writes Sidney Blumenthal. SF Chron: Bush unlikely to abandon Rove. Slate: Why aren't the major newspapers running editorials calling for Karl Rove's resignation, asks Timothy Noah. WaPo: Joseph Wilson wants Bush to Fire Rove.

Apprentice to Be Divided by Race? (MSNBC)
Jeannette Walls: Donald Trump is reportedly considering pitting a team of African-American contestants against a team of all-white players for the new season of his hit reality TV show.

Emmy Nominations Today (AP via Fox News)
Bids for the 57th Annual Primetime Emmy Awards were announced today by Jami Gertz of Still Standing and Michael Imperioli, an Emmy winner last year for his role in The Sopranos. Desperate Housewives and Will & Grace each got 15 nods.

Paper Weight (Guardian)
The sheer size of British newspapers may be creating oversupply and cutting into sales, says a study that found they have swelled 9 percent in the past 18 months and now total 8,500 pages a week.

Gannett Sees Earnings Decline (AP via Yahoo!)
The nation's biggest newspaper publisher posted a slight decline in second-quarter earnings on lower revenue from broadcast and U.K. units, and additional expenses. Bloomberg via NYT: Advertising revenue dropped at Gannett's 21 TV stations and at USA Today.

For Jennings, News Waits for No Man (USAT)
Despite his lung cancer diagnosis, ABC's Peter Jennings continues to help direct news coverage from behind the scenes. World News chief Jon Banner says Jennings' fingerprints are "all over each broadcast."

Retailers Wage 'Dark War' Over Harry (Business Week)
As fans desperate to read the latest adventures of schoolboy wizard Harry Potter place orders for the new book, bookshops and other sellers are practicing some dark arts to ensure a share of the profits. AP via Boston Herald: New York publisher accidentally sells Potter book.

PBS to Launch Downloadable TV Series (Reuters)
13 one-hour episodes of NerdTV will be made available weekly beginning Sept. 6, and all episodes will remain to be available on the public network's website.

China Tightens Restrictions on Foreign News Agencies (AFX via Forbes)
Domestic TV and radio stations are no longer allowed to lease their frequencies to foreign broadcasters or have any broadcasting cooperation, either operational or financial.

The Death and Life of Fast Company (Media Life)
Sean Leahy: The mag was a goner in May, or so the street had it. "It was kind of like being in a hostage crisis," says John Byrne. Today it lives.

Osnos Moves On (NYP)
Peter Osnos, the journalist-turned-book executive, is stepping down from the PublicAffairs imprint he started eight years ago with the aim of bringing out quality books with low-priced advances.

Good Fences (NYT)
After seeing ads for Welcome to the Neighborhood, a new reality show on ABC, a family relocating to Austin, Texas, learns more about their prospective neighbors and reconsiders the move.

How the U.S. Media Covered the London Bombings (Boston Phoenix)
Mark Jurkowitz: From the opening scenes of chaos to the re-energized reporting on the nature of the Al Qaeda threat, how the meaning of the London attack was processed through the media machinery.

Google News and Satire (Gelf Mag)
David Goldenberg: How does Google News treat satire? And what's in the search algorithm's secret sauce, anyway? Little information comes from the company itself.

What They're Saying (CSM)
A website launched earlier this year simply culls, without comment, the foreign online press for commentary about America, offering a glimpse of how foreigners feel about the only superpower.

Ruse Cycle (New York Press)
Matt Taibbi: Browsing the want ads, and came across this: "NEEDED: Assignment editor in important cultural organization. Must have no morals and be completely full of shit." (Parody...uh, probably)

—David S. Hirschman

IN YESTERDAY'S MB BLOGS:

Greta's Yacht: Almost A Work of Art [TVNewser]
Tampa Bay Illustrated takes us aboard Greta Van Susteren's yacht. The S.S. Sophie is an "80-foot floating icon of another age," the story says.

McClellan's Momentum Killers [FishbowlDC]
When he's decided he's had enough of the question of the day, Scott McClellan needs to look no further than the second row of the press briefing room. At the end of the row most days sits a mysterious foil known to everyone in the room as Goyal. He can always be counted on to ask something off-topic--generally something about India or Kashmir. It changes the subject, albeit momentarily, and that's all it takes to suck the wind from the sails of the the mainstream press. This week, McClellan has been repeatedly using Goyal (Full moniker: Raghubir Goyal of the India Globe) to get out of the tough questioning he's facing on the Rove leak investigation. PLUS: Chat with FishbowlDC editor Garrett Graff about Karl Rove and the Plame affair at the WashingtonPost.com today at 3PM EST.

Rove Dances the Dance of a Thousand Hippos or Something [FishbowlNY]
I don't quite know what this headline means, really, but then again, it's about as clear as the White House position on the matter of Karl Rove. Yesterday's press briefing seemed to end in an impasse, with Scott McClellan reaching the limit of what he would say and the White House Press Corps pressing him on it, anyway (Jon Stewart: "We've secretly replaced the White House press corps with actual reporters"). PLUS: Lunch at Michael's

It's a Small Star After All [FishbowlLA]
Tomorrow, Disneyland will get a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame. Sort of. It's actually on private property—a storefront just "inches away" from the Walk of Fame, according to the LAT.

Typography: Fonts Fonts Fonts [UnBeige]
Today, at lunch, we talked about fonts. And in our recent hazy glow of nostalgic retrospect, it made us think about the time we wrote our thesis in Times New Roman and the entire architecture department sent us to the corner with a totally overdesigned dunce cap (while reveling in their own Helvetica Neues and Arial Narrows). If only they'd known we weren't alone. Apparently, Robert Venturi himself, godfather of very big signs, loves that very typeface.

The Zoo: Week Two [mbToolbox]
Today is the second in a series of posts by San-Diego-based writer named Thomas Shess who has decided to keep a journal on his journey to find a publisher for his novel.

Less Fun with Numbers [Galleycat]
What are the odds of making a living off your writing? According to author and engineer Greg Slominski, 1 in 380.