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Plame Blame: Ex-CIA Agent and Husband Sue Rove, Libby, and Cheney (WaPo)
Former CIA officer Valerie Plame and her husband, former ambassador Joseph C. Wilson IV, filed a lawsuit yesterday against Vice President Cheney, presidential adviser Karl Rove and former vice presidential aide I. Lewis "Scooter" Libby, accusing the three of violating their constitutional rights. The Smoking Gun: Copy of the 23-page suit.

Businessman Sues to Block McClatchy Deal (AP via ABC News)
Clinton Reilly, a millionaire real estate investor, plans to file an antitrust lawsuit today that could derail or at least delay McClatchy's plan to unload the San Jose Mercury News, Contra Costa Times and Monterey Herald.

U.K. Fury Over Publication of Princess Diana Death Photo (Mirror)
An Italian magazine has published what it claims is the "last photo" of Princess Diana — taken just moments after the Paris car crash which claimed her life in 1997. The black and white image shows the princess being given oxygen in the crashed Mercedes following the high-speed smash in the Pont de La Alma tunnel.

Dow Jones to Reassess News Delivery (NYT)
Dow Jones yesterday offered a clue to the possible next editorial overseer of the Wall Street Journal, as the company twinned an announcement of the retirement date of the newspaper's managing editor with the creation of a committee to reassess the ways it delivers news across all its print and online properties. NYO Media Mob: The union representing Wall Street Journal staff responded to the Dow Jones memo outlining the company's new "strategy project" with a memo of its own.

Near-Fight Between Gossips Breaks Out At Book Party (FishbowlNY)
It wasn't with exactly Zidane-Materazzi, but we'll take it. About midway through last night's book party at New York's Soho House — hosted by Nick Denton and Jared Paul Stern — in honor of Toby Young's Sound of No Hands Clapping, Young's wife, Caroline, broke up a near-brawl involving former New York Post gossip columnist and author Ian Spiegelman and New York Press writer Douglas Dechert. New York: The two have what some would call a history. Gawker: Photos of the scuffle.

Owner Strikes Back in Turmoil at Santa Barbara News-Press (LAT)
Normally genteel Santa Barbara convulsed with another round of recrimination over its daily newspaper — with owner Wendy McCaw accusing journalists who quit her newsroom en masse of using the paper to air their biases, while one of the defectors slammed the wealthy owner as an amateurish meddler.

Cable Giants Cleared to Buy Systems of Adelphia (LAT)
Time Warner will become Southern California's largest cable TV provider under the deal, acquiring Adelphia's 1.2 million subscribers in the region along with 500,000 from Comcast in a complicated swap of assets arising from Adelphia's collapse into bankruptcy in 2002 amid an accounting scandal.

News Corp. Launches Online Safety Campaign For Fox, MySpace (AHN)
In a 20-second ad airing on TV, 24 star Kiefer Sutherland says, "On TV Jack Bauer has 24 hours to make the world safe. In real life it only takes a few minutes to do the same for our kids. To protect them you don't need the latest state-of-the-art technology."

Angelina Jolie to Play Widow of Daniel Pearl (Chicago Sun-Times)
For her first live-action role since giving birth, Angelina Jolie will star in A Mighty Heart as Mariane Pearl — the widow of Wall Street Journal reporter Daniel Pearl, who was murdered by terrorists in Pakistan. The movie is being co-produced by Jolie's boyfriend Brad Pitt and his Plan B production company.

Weather Channel Promises to Deliver Specified Ad Audience (WSJ)
TV networks have long offered similar minimum-audience guarantees for advertisers, but only covering viewing for the program, not for commercial breaks. Now, however, advertisers are pushing for better information about viewing of commercials.

Demoted for Racism, Metro Exec Tapped for Advisory Board (NYP)
Steve Nylund, who drew heat last year at freebie chain Metro International for being racially insensitive, has been tapped for a company advisory board set up to monitor such behavior. He stepped down from his post of president at Metro USA in early '05 over remarks he allegedly made at a conference.

Rage Against the MSMachine (The Nation)
Lakshmi Chaudhry: In one sense, all political bloggers define themselves in opposition to mainstream journalists, who are viewed as elitists determined to marginalize the true will of the American people. But where the right-wing blogosphere accuses journalists of ideological bias, the progressive netroots view them as corrupt and compromised.

Art Buchwald Not Yet Ready for Last Laugh (ABC News)
Five months ago, the Pulitizer Prize-winning columnist voluntarily stopped dialysis treatment, checked into a Washington-area hospice and prepared for the end, but now he is off to the beach: "The purpose of the hospice is to help you go gently into the night when all else fails. ... It didn't work out that way for me."

NYT's Shamu-Mania (Slate)
Jack Shafer: Columns about men, women, and relationships are perennial favorites. But almost three weeks later, "What Shamu Taught Me About a Happy Marriage" remains near the top of the NYTimes.com's constantly churning list of most-e-mailed articles and shows no sign of sinking.

The Good Old Days of American Journalism — Way Back in 2006 (Grade the News)
John McManus: At first we welcomed skim, homogenized news. Fewer stories. Less perplexing. Those short, sensational articles were so easy to digest. We applauded the absence of scandals and the flood of good news for a while — until we realized most of it was rewritten from press releases. Turns out the news we most needed wasn't the news most wanted.

NBC Launches Office Webisodes (Star Pulse)
NBC's hit comedy The Office went digital when the first of 10, original stand-alone webisodes premiered on NBC.com yesterday. The serialized, weekly arc will star the accounting staff of the Dunder Mifflin paper company in an edge-of-your-ergonomically-designed-seat whodunit.