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Ailes: Clinton's Response to Wallace an 'Assault on All Journalists' (AP)
"If you can't sit there and answer a question from a professional, mild-mannered, respectful reporter like Chris Wallace, then the hatred for journalists is showing," Ailes said. "All journalists need to raise their eyebrows and say, 'hold on a second.'"

Musharraf Memoir May Help Daniel Pearl Killer's Appeal (Reuters)
The lawyer of an Islamist militant sentenced to hang in Pakistan for his role in the murder of U.S. reporter Daniel Pearl said he would use President Pervez Musharraf's memoir to support an appeal. Musharraf wrote that Pearl's execution was carried out by Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, mastermind of the Sept. 11 terror attacks.

U.S. Firm That Paid Iraq Papers for Coverage Gets New Contract (AP via CBS News)
The Lincoln Group PR company — which participated in a controversial U.S. military program that paid Iraqi newspapers for favorable stories — has been awarded another multimillion-dollar contract to monitor English and Arabic media outlets and produce public relations-type products like talking points or speeches for U.S. forces in Iraq.

The Newspaper Publisher Who Said No to More Cuts (NYT)
In refusing job cuts at the Los Angeles Times, publisher Jeffrey M. Johnson — who has worked for Tribune for more than 20 years — seemed to many of the paper's employees to transform himself as dramatically as Clark Kent does when he turns into Superman.

'Nipplegate' Court Case Pushed Back (B&C)
The Federal Court hearing CBS' challenge to the Janet Jackson case has granted the network's request for an extension of time to file its opening brief so that the case's briefing schedule will essentially mirror the schedule for briefs in the broadcaster's other challenge to four profanity decisions.

News Corp. Buys 2 Newspaper Groups (NYT)
The company, which owns the New York Post has broadened its metropolitan-area presence with the acquisition of two newspaper groups that have 28 weekly papers primarily serving Queens and Brooklyn, increasing its reach to the minority populations that have been strongholds of its main competitor, The Daily News.

Univision Deal Wins Approval Narrowly (LAT)
Univision Communications Inc. shareholders have approved Chairman A. Jerrold Perenchio's hard-fought deal to sell the Los Angeles-based company for $12.3 billion to a group of private investors. Univision received the support of 63% of shareholders — just clearing the 60% needed to win approval of the deal.

AP Obit Gaffe: Songwriter Not Dead (NY Sun)
The man who co-wrote the song "Itsy Bitsy Teenie Weenie Yellow Polka Dot Bikini" had the unsettling experience this week of reading his own obituary — the result of an impostor who went through life claiming to be the author of the 1960s smash hit.

With Portfolio Coming, BW Gears Up (WWD)
The long lead time for the Condé biz mag's debut gives its competitors plenty of time to prepare. Top editors at BusinessWeek this summer invited Gary Belsky and Neil Fine, executive editors at ESPN the Magazine, and New York editor-in-chief Adam Moss in to critique the magazine as it geared up for a major redesign.

Washington Times Employee Caught in Sex Sting (Washington Times)
The paper's director of human resources Randall Casseday was arrested Monday after police said he had arranged to meet who he thought was a 13-year-old girl. He had actually exchanged Internet messages and photographs with a male police officer posing as a girl.

Remembering a Storied Newspaper (NYT)
After four decades, those who know still mourn the loss of the New York Herald Tribune, the snappy, artful "writer's paper" that crashed on the rocks of mergers and a newspaper strike in 1966. It was a printed playground for Joseph Mitchell, Herbert Asbury, St. Clair McKelway, Alva Johnston and Tom Wolfe.

The Impending Death of Libération (Guardian)
Agnes Poirier: The days of France's only leftwing daily newspaper, are numbered. "I give it a year," said journalist and media analyst Philippe Cohen. Some think its impending demise is a scandal, but many won't be crying — including those for whom its decline symbolizes a loss of direction among the 1968 generation.

Fired Miami Herald Reporter Back in Business (Miami New Times)
Fourteen months after the paper canned him for turning on a tape recorder, the mountainous media celebrity has re-emerged, having cobbled together a five-day-a-week radio gig, three days as a TV commentator, and regular writing for South Beach magazine LRM.

Praise for Stop Smiling (Slate)
Jack Shafer: The five-or-six times a year Chicago-based arts and culture magazine is smart and idiosyncratic. It's a little like Dave Eggers' old magazine Might in that it's beautiful to look at, only it's irony-free. And it brims with the romanticism for magazines that Harold Hayes applied to Esquire, and Louis Rosetto drenched Wired with.

Novel Consumes Writer's Years, Reviews Say It's Lousy (Salon)
Michael Laser: After four years of painstaking work my novel has gotten only two reviews, and they're both bad. It's ungracious, of course, for authors to dispute bad reviews. Lofty silence is much more dignified. Let the readers decide. The trouble is, thanks to my two bad reviews, there will be no readers, or extremely few. I don't have that many relatives.