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AMI Tumble (NYP)
Standard & Poor's reassigned its nearly $1 billion in long-term debt with a "negative" outlook after the supermarket tabloid publisher dropped into the red in the first quarter.

Tribune Strikes Deal With Variety (Los Angeles Business Journal)
Stories from the Hollywood trade bible will be distributed nationally to print and online publishers under a new syndication deal with Tribune Media Services.

Circulation Scandal Spreads (AdAge.com)
Martha Stewart Living, Family Circle, and House Beautiful are the latest titles to be swept up in a circulation scandal that is tearing through the industry like "an apocalypse," as one worried publisher dubbed it.

Dimond in the Rough (Lowdown)
Lloyd Grove: Acquitted pop star Michael Jackson's lightning-rod nemesis Diane Dimond just got the bad news that Court TV won't be renewing her contract.

FCC Ready to Target Cable (Salon)
Michael Scherer: The indecency war is ready to heat up—and Tony Soprano, Jon Stewart and the South Park kids better watch their mouths.

Washington Times Offers to Sponsor 'Freedom Walk' (E&P)
Two weeks after The Washington Post pulled its co-sponsorship of a controversial Pentagon-organized march to commemorate Sept. 11, the paper's crosstown rival has offered to take its place.

Just Because You're Paranoid Don't Mean They're Not After You (SFBG)
Tim Redmond: We've got proof that Village Voice Media and New Times, the nation's two largest alt-weekly publishers, have been in negotiations over a merger that would create an 18-paper chain.

Reuters Demands Release of Journo in Iraq (Reuters)
The new agency demanded the immediate release of an Iraqi cameraman who was still being held by U.S. forces more than 24 hours after being wounded in an incident in which his soundman was killed.

Arizona Paper Drops Ann Coulter's 'Shrill' Column (E&P)
In announcing changes to the paper's opinion pages, Arizona Daily Star Editor and Publisher David Stoeffler revealed that the paper was dropping Coulter's syndicated column.

Embed Your Enthusiasm (NYT)
Michiko Kakutani: Imagine George Costanza or one of Woody Allen's hypochondriacal heroes being sent off to cover the Iraq war, and you have a good idea of what Chris Ayres's new memoir is like.

Standard's Practices (WaPo)
Peter Carlson: As the Weekly Standard prepares to celebrate its 10th anniversary, it's worth noting that it is a truly excellent right-wing warmongering mag, no matter your political persuasion.

Win Simon's Swag Bag (AdAge)
Bemoaning the sad state of print advertising, Simon Dumenco offers a bag of freebies to readers who nominate the most engaging print ads they've seen in the last two months.

Read the Mag, Then Eat the Meal (NYT)
Cooking Light, part of the Southern Progress Corp., holds informal get-togethers of its readers, known as Cooking Light Supper Clubs, as well as other community-building events.

'Skins Owner Woos WaPo (Washingtonian)
Washington Redskins owner Dan Snyder gave the paper's brass the velvet glove treatment over a meal in June at his 50-room mansion in Potomac.

More Details From the Condé Biz Shuffle (MIN)
Strong bonds tie the new publisher of Condé Nast's business title to his former cohort, David Remnick, at The New Yorker, and he will likely be drawn to new editor Joanne Lipman.

Tech Changes, But Newsgathering Stays the Same (Variety)
Young Broadcasting is the first major U.S. station group to shift to the video journalist model, where reporters, editors and photographers all hit the streets to shoot, then edit, their own work.

MTV Welcomes Teens Back to Hit Series (NYT)
To lure back its audience after a seven-and-a-half-month hiatus, MTV immersed its target demographic in a Laguna Beach all-media universe.

New on TV: The Multiple-Channel Screen (WSJ)
The multiple-channel screen, known in the industry as a "mosaic," is about to show up throughout the country in another sign that satellite and cable systems are embracing interactive television.

Amazon's Vital 'Stats' (WaPo)
The site now lets you know such things as the "Statistically Improbable Phrases" that appear in a book, the relative "complexity" of the words, as well as how many words you are getting per dollar.

—David S. Hirschman

IN YESTERDAY'S MB BLOGS:

Hemmer's Enormous Opportunity at FNC [TVNewser]
In the midst of the hurricane, we must reference Bill Hemmer's long hours. In his first full day as a Fox News anchor, the former CNNer appeared in the 11am, noon, 3pm, and 5pm hours.

A Modest Celebrity Proposal [FishBowlLA]
Michael Hiltzik: The California Celebrity Protection Act would state that any individual who has been the subject of three or more items in People, Us Weekly, the New York Post's Page Six, or OK! Magazine over any six-week span must apply for and receive a state celebrity license before appearing in public. The fee would be $5,000, unless any of the articles was a cover story, in which case it would be $15,000. Two cover stories - $25,000, and so on.

Capitol Punishment for Life [FishBowlDC]
Lloyd Grove notes in today's NY Daily News' Lowdown that some in Washington are greeting playboy publisher Jason Binn, of the soon-to-launch Capitol File magazine, like an alien invader who must be stopped.

Monday Media Minutiae [FishBowlNY]
This freelance writer's done his time as a hack, he's leaving the life and he ain't lookin' back, he's Ben Yagoda, Y-A-G-O-D-A Yagoda. A freelancer's gotta have patience and pluck/When your copy is butchered and you can't make a buck to buy a soda S-O-D-A so he's hittin' the road-ah. You think you know what song this is, but you're wrong.

Hi, Gorgeous, Haven't I Read You Somewhere Before, Like Maybe On A Snippy Blog? [Unbeige]
This weekend's mammoth Gray Lady brought what at first glance seemed like a shockingly newsworthy story by none other than two-time WTC memorial competition entrant Fred A. Bernstein. In the wake of Thomas Shine's lawsuit against SOM Goliath David Childs, it seemed the whole architectural profession might be taking a turn for the atypical, the entire process of "homage" and "reference" being taken for what it so often is: outright plagiarism.

AG Member of the Week: Christine Finn [MB Toolbox]
The biographer of Jacqutta Hawkes says learning to love deadlines has improved her work.