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NBC, CNN to Stay in New Orleans (AP via USAT)
Anticipating that the Hurricane Katrina recovery will be a big story for months to come, both NBC and CNN are opening full-time news bureaus in the hurricane-ravaged city. Reuters: Katrina exerts subtle force on Emmy Awards.

US Weekly Gossip Becomes Gossip Fodder (AP via Chicago Trib)
Timothy McDarrah, editor of the Hot Stuff column, was charged with trying to seduce an FBI agent posing on the Internet as a 13-year-old girl. The mag has suspended him without pay.

A Bad Day for Good News in Iraq (Newsweek)
Michael Hastings: U.S. officials wanted to show journalists signs of progress in Iraq. Multiple bombings in Baghdad meant it didn't quite turn out that way.

Student Column Strikes a Nerve at UNC (Raleigh News & Observer)
20-year-old Jillian Bandes wrote in The Daily Tar Heel: "I want all Arabs to be stripped naked and cavity-searched if they get within 100 yards of an airport." She has been dismissed from the paper.

NBC Targeting the Heartland (NYT)
NBC is using tactics evocative of a red-state presidential campaign to promote a new show aimed at a churchgoing, rural and suburban audience.

Photog Catches Heroin-Chic Chick on Coke Diet (NYDN)
London's Sunday Mirror, which was to pay Kate Moss libel damages for claiming she fell into a cocaine-induced coma, had its vengeance—publishing photos that allegedly show the supermodel snorting the drug. Guardian: Coke pics are a minefield for the glamorous brands Moss represents, which include Rimmel, Burberry, Chanel and Dior.

Reuters Explains Bush Bathroom Note Photo (PDN)
A Reuters processor used Photoshop to burn down the note. This is a standard practice for news photos, says the news agency's picture editor, and the photo was not manipulated in any other way. E&P: Reuters says note photo was "not malicious."

Reading Faulkner With Oprah (Slate)
Meghan O'Rourke: It looked like one of the oddest pairings around, and yet Oprah-meets-Faulkner turned out, in a curious way, to be an inspired match.

TV Thinking Outside the Box (CSM)
This fall, the small screen will be filled with intricate plots, sprawling storylines, and bizarre mysteries. Can these "serials" peel viewers from tidy crime dramas like Law&Order and CSI?

Geraldo 'Whipped' Into Frenzy (LAT)
"I've stopped being the whipping boy," explains the Fox News reporter. Rivera is demanding a correction from the New York Times for a Katrina-related analysis piece and threatening to sue.

Rodale Announces Plans for Women's Health (WWD)
As part of the move, Tina Johnson, who had been serving as executive editor during the run of five test issues, was promoted to editor in chief. [Second item.]

Do Events Outshine Their Mag Sponsors? (Folio:)
Dylan Stableford: Three magazine-propelled events within the next few weeks are at the cutting edge of the indie scene. But has the success of their events taken something away from their print counterparts?

Who Knew? Mags Still Around (Marketwatch)
Jon Friedman: I'd understand if you forgot. In recent years, mag publishers' laziness and lack of innovation have enabled blogs to hijack the intangible "buzz" that the mainstream media crave.

Will People Shell Out for Dowd, Krugman? (Business Week)
Jon Fine: It's true consumers are willing to pay more for certain media offerings. But one key market perversity is that this dynamic does not apply to print.

O'Reilly: Katrina Victims Were Junkies, Thugs (Media Matters)
"Many, many, many of the poor in New Orleans... weren't going to leave no matter what you did," said Bill O'Reilly. "They were drug-addicted. They weren't going to get turned off from their source. They were thugs, whatever."

Eric Clapton Shopping Autobiography (NYP)
According to publishing sources, the memoir would serve as a unique view of the rock 'n' roll world—told through the eyes of someone who survived at or near the top for 40 years.

Diaz Cameraman Jailed (E!)
Photographer John Rutter had approached Cameron Diaz with topless photos he snapped of her in 1992 and demanded $3 million for the shots, threatening to sell them to the highest bidder.

Anger at Thai Tycoon's Media Bid (BBC)
Rights groups have expressed fears that media baron Paiboon Damrongchaitham's attempts to buy into two of Thailand's major newspapers, Matichon and the Bangkok Post, will erode press freedom.

—David S. Hirschman

IN YESTERDAY'S MB BLOGS:

NBC News Opens Bureau In New Orleans [TVNewser]
NBC News is opening a full-time news bureau in New Orleans, the network announced today. It will operate in conjunction with the NBC affiliate WDSU.

Long Live the Neocons! [FishbowlDC]
From a gala-packed evening in D.C. last night, Wonkgirl has a report from last night's Weekly Standard party. With no less than six major events across Washington last night, it's a wonder that any party was able to attract anyone.

David Gregory...or should we call you "Big Tall Dave?" [FishbowlNY]
We just heard from Jennifer Blessman at Forbes, who attended college with David Gregory at American University (Class of '92, woo-hoo!), lived on his floor in the dorm, and shared common frosh classes with his long, tall self. She kindly offers some intel on Gregory's height; not an actual figure -- that's still a mystery -- but some lore, if you will...

Kinsley to 'kibitz' [FishbowlLA]
Howard Kurtz has some information on what Kinsley's role will be at the Washington Post.

Reality Outpaces Science Fiction [GalleyCat]
On the train down to D.C. yesterday, I was reading Forty Signs of Rain by Kim Stanley Robinson (left), a "twenty minutes into the future" novel in which a technocrat couple--he's a senatorial aide, she works at the National Science Foundation--do what they can to make the government get serious about global warming.

Resume Reco [mbToolbox]
They always say that a resume should fit on one page...One option is to create a freelancing resume and a professional resume, so that you can list your work experience or your list of clients with lots of room. Or, you can more clearly divide your existing resume, per Mediabistro Resume Revamper Alex Twersky's advice...

This Reader Is Definitely Going to Get a Prize [UnBeige]
One of the most exciting parts of getting "hired" for this "job" was the prospect of oodles of reader participation...Spugbucket's back. And we're feeling it: "Sirs--I recently happened upon the attached item as I was out strolling amongst "the people" in my local Target. I dropped to my knees weeping, as I had finally found the ultimate synthesis of graphic design, architecture, commerce, and semiotics that I had been searching for my entire adult life..."