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Lost, Raymond Take Top Honors at Emmys (AP)
Ray Romano's sitcom won the prize for best comedy series for its final season and denied newcomer Desperate Housewives. Another first-year hit, Lost, won best drama honors. Salon: The 'Buffy,' for most underappreciated TV show, goes to... USAT: Emmys' worst enemy is itself, writes Robert Bianco.

Blair Tells Murdoch BBC Hates America (AFP via Yahoo!)
"Tony Blair... said [the BBC] was just full of hate of America and gloating about our troubles. And that was his government. Well, his government-owned thing," said Rupert Murdoch at a conference. Guardian: Blair characterized the BBC's coverage of Hurricane Katrina as "full of hatred of America" and "gloating" at the country's plight.

David Geffen Eying L.A. Times? (LAT)
Three well-known civic figures in Los Angeles said they had heard Geffen in recent weeks talking about how he would like to take control of the paper, owned by Tribune Co.

Advertisers Turn to Web (NYT)
The advertising industry is turning to chat rooms and other Internet sources to try to determine what the next television hits will be.

Wintour's Chubbophobia (Lowdown)
Vogue editor at large Andre Leon Talley is eating a high-calorie plate of crow over his comments on Thursday's Oprah Winfrey Show that Anna Wintour "does not like fat people." NYDN: PETA snarling at Wintour.

J.Diddy's Elite Visitors (WaPo)
Judith Miller is cut off from the world, but a parade of prominent government and media officials, 99 in all, has been steadily visiting Miller between early July and Labor Day.

In Search of the 'Tipping Point' (LAT)
As the 2005-06 television season officially kicks off today, the six major networks have rolled out multipronged marketing campaigns to create the buzz that drives viewership.

Study: Journos Fail to Check Accuracy of Leaked Stories (Guardian)
Researchers at the University of Nijmegen in the Netherlands spoke to journalists and editors at 50 Dutch daily newspapers and found that not one believed using leaked information posed a moral problem.

Media and Publishing Salaries List (New York Mag)
Time Warner CEO Richard Parsons, $23,557,165; Page Six's Richard Johnson, $300,000, Anna Wintour, $2 million; NYT Executive Editor Bill Keller, $650,000. [Second and Third items.]

Katrina Coverage 'More Horrible Than the Truth' (NYT)
David Carr: During the most terrible days of Hurricane Katrina, the media's willingness to report specious rumors may have contributed to a kind of cultural wreckage that will not clean up easily.

ABC Radio Boosts Girl Talk (Mediaweek)
To close the gender gap, the radio programmer is announcing today it has formed a new division dedicated to creating talk programming targeted at women headed by Corny Koehl.

What Happened to Bold, Beautiful Newspapers? (Slate)
Jack Shafer: The downsizing of graphic ambition continues today, as American publishers contemplate following their British cousins and converting their already slimmed broadsheets into tabloids.

Even a Newspaper Darling Is Sweating (NYT)
At a time when many newspapers are cutting back and announcing layoffs, McClatchy is building its properties. Still, the trends for newspapers are dismal right now and even McClatchy sees clouds on the horizon.

Hollinger Settles Circ Lawsuits (Chicago Sun-Times)
The Chicago-based firm also announced that it had reached a tentative settlement of lawsuits brought as the result of a scandal centered on inflated circulation figures.

WaPo Loses Heavy Hitter to SI (Washingtonian)
Harry Jaffe: The latest defection is sportswriter Nunyo Demasio's to Sports Illustrated. Many credit Demasio with changing the Post's coverage of the Washington Redskins from passive to aggressive.

Rap Mag Gets Into the Game (NYDN)
Rap bible XXL magazine is putting out its first ever CD. The hip hop monthly has struck a deal with independent record label Razor & Tie Entertainment to release XXL Raps.

In Praise of the Novel (Sign and Sight)
Carlos Fuentes: The bestseller lists of the past fifty years are, with a few lively exceptions, a somber graveyard of dead books. Yet permanence is not a wilful proposition.

Sitcoms Making a Comeback? (USAT)
Robert Bianco: Both of CBS' comedy premieres represent a step toward the long-desired sitcom revival, and even Fox's effort is an honest attempt to find a partner for Arrested Development. Mediaweek: Some nets get a jump on the fall season.

Writers Guild Pickets in the Hamptons (New Yorker)
Adam Green: A handful of writers milled in front of Wainscott Studios carrying signs, while a succession of Hummers, Escalades, and BMW convertibles roared past the picket line.

A Review of the Times' New Pay-Per-Read (E&P)
Greg Mitchell: The question remains: how quickly, and how many, other Web editors and bloggers will copy the columns in question and put them up on their own sites, daring the Times to sue them.

UNC Student's Harsh Welcome to the Real World (Marketwatch)
Jon Friedman: One point is that a journalist has certain rights to write all kinds of inflammatory and even offensive stuff. But the lesson here is that questionable ethical conduct can trip anyone up.

—David S. Hirschman

MB BLOGS THIS WEEKEND:

Remembering Peter: A Tribute Instead Of A Reunion At The Emmys [TVNewser]
The Emmys saluted the careers of Tom Brokaw, Peter Jennings and
Dan Rather. "For nearly a quarter of a century three men in this country were anchors in more ways than one," actor Alan Alda said. "At a time so many things in our country were changing, they were solid."

'All Too Human' Faces 'My Life' [FishbowlDC]
So while Barack Obama, who did his first Sunday show since taking office last week, heads over to 'Face' Bob Scheiffer in a second warm-up to the no-longer-as-critical-as-it-once-was-but-still-important Tim Russert Primary, ABC's George Stephanopoulos faces a historic showdown this Sunday.

Taibbi returns to New York Press [FishbowlNY]
Just when you thought he quit or got fired or whatever, papal comedian/columnist Matt Taibbi appears triumphantly in the pages of New York Press once again. Page 4 of this week's paper shows that picture of actor Sean Penn and Taibbi in a boat that everyone else saw last week. The cutline identifies Taibbi only as an "employee of
superannuated dino-rock rag." Has institutional memory at the Press receded this much?

Inside the PR Machine [FishbowlLA]
Brinkmann provides a rare look at what publicists actually do every day, and how they interact with their clients. (Added bonus- the PR firm in question is PMK)...

Embedded in the Storm [GalleyCat]
Hillel Italie of the Associated Press reports on the latest major deal for a Katrina book (after last week's Douglas Brinkley signing), this one from New Orleans Times-Picayune city editor Jed Horne. Random House describes the book as "an insider's narrative account of the Hurricane Katrina disaster that will locate its roots in the culture and politics of the city of New Orleans and in the national politics of oil, homeland security, poverty and race relations.

David Peters Knows A Lot About Typography And Film Titles And It's Really Interesting [UnBeige]
This is all from Saturday, but really, who reads blogs on the weekends??? We're reprising...We slipped in for the end of David Peters' talk on the typography of film titles, which we found utterly fascinating.

Pop Quiz: John Warner [mbToolbox]
Today I chat with a fellow who writes fiction, humor, and non-fiction and is the author of Fondling Your Muse: A Book of Advice from a Published Author to a Writerly Aspirant, a Hands-On Guide to Writing Your Very Own New York Times Bestseller. With Kevin Guilfoile he wrote My First Presidentiary: A Scrapbook of George W. Bush which, was a Washington Post #1 Paperback Bestseller. He edits McSweeney's Internet Tendency and teaches at Clemson University.