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From the Clink to Ka-Ching (Huffington Post)
Arianna Huffington: Sources tell me that Judy Miller is telling friends that she has made a $1.2 million book deal with Simon & Schuster, to be edited by Alice Mayhew. NYT: Miller said "Scooter" Libby had not agreed to these conditions until late last month and so, contrary to what she called White House "spin," she could not have testified a year ago or avoided jail. NYT: Norman Pearlstine, editor in chief of Time Inc., is writing a book about the use and misuse of anonymous sources. WaPo: Libby's team again blames Miller for her own incarceration. American Prospect: Keller and Sulzberger face a stark choice of whether they owe their primary loyalty to their employees and shareholders or to their readers.

Clear Channel Renews Push To Ease Ownership Limits (Reuters)
The biggest U.S. radio station operator renewed its call for Congress to ease restrictions on the number of outlets it can own in a market so it can better compete and boost profits. Mediaweek: The company also called for steps toward restrictions on satellite rivals.

Networks May Charge $1 Per Show for On-Demand (NYP)
On-demand viewing is so revolutionary for ABC, CBS, and NBC primetime programs that the networks are struggling in boardrooms about how to make it happen under the "old-media" model.

Times-Pic Will Return to New Orleans (AP via Forbes)
The newspaper, which is owned by the Newhouse family, had moved its operations for several weeks to nearby Baton Rouge as well as to Mobile, Ala. and Houma in the wake of Hurricane Katrina.

FCC To Extend Stations' Indecency Liability (Mediaweek)
The commission's chairman Kevin Martin said his agency would move to ease a huge backlog of TV license renewals if station owners agree to extended liability from indecency or other complaints.

Online Ad Spending Soars (Guardian)
Spending on online advertising rocketed by over 60 percent in the first six months of this year, overtaking the market share of outdoor advertising for the first time, a year ahead of predictions.

Auletta Article Exposes Major Rift between LAT, Tribune (E&P)
In a much-awaited article in The New Yorker, Ken Auletta outlines the conflicts that led to the departure of John Carroll as editor of the Los Angeles Times this summer and cloud the future of the newspaper.

Feds Right to Slam Bushies on Faux News (NYT)
Editorial: In its purchase of self-aggrandizing agitprop, the administration plainly violated the law against spreading "covert propaganda" at public expense.

Dash of Violence? (NYDN)
Rap mogul Damon Dash is one hands-on publisher, according to Smokey D. Fontaine, the editor of his glossy America. Fontaine claims one blow from the hip-hop heavy sent him to the hospital.

Circ Gamers (Ad Age)
Simon Dumenco: Every few years the glossy world endures some sort of circulation scandal. Everybody acts upset and a little bit shocked, reporting and auditing standards are supposedly revised and tightened, and then everybody mostly goes back to doing what they normally do: finding ways to game their circ numbers.

The Web and Plagiarism (Slate)
Adam Penenberg: New technology to detect plagiarism may be gaining steam at universities, but even Google and Lexis-Nexis have changed the playing field.

Tabs Turning Tide on Kate Moss? (WWD)
The Daily Mirror, which broke the story of Moss' drug problem last month, told a heartwarming story yesterday of the model's reunion with daughter Lila Grace at the clinic.

Pecker Says His 'Financial D-Day' Won't Come Until 2013 (MIN)
American Media Inc.'s CEO David Pecker says investors Evercore Partners and Thomas H. Lee Partners recommitted to his tabloid empire for 10 years in 2003.

Newspapers Stuck in 'Hunter-Gatherer Model of Journalism' (Grade the News)
Philip Meyer: Newspapers' problem today is that they are trying to maintain monopoly pricing when they no longer have the monopoly. Newspaper companies have lost their ability to adapt.

The Morning Shift (NYP)
NY1 anchor Pat Kiernan advises young reporters to leave New York and work in small towns. "They'll work you like crazy and pay you almost nothing—but you'll come back with more experience than if you stayed and finally convinced someone to let you cover one story on-air."

NYU Ups J-School Staff by 60% (Chronicle of Higher Education)
The 12-professor hiring spree is part of a $200-million effort to bring 250 new arts-and-science professors to the university over the next seven years.

Martha Hot for Expansion (E!)
Martha Stewart is not showing signs of slowing when it comes to the project of revitalizing her brand name. The lifestyles pro has announced plans for a third, as-yet untitled TV series to debut next year.

CBC, Union Reach Memorandum of Agreement (CBC)
The Canadian Broadcasting Corporation and the Canadian Media Guild, reached a memorandum of agreement as a lockout affecting over 5,000 CMG employees was starting its 50th day.

—David S. Hirschman

IN YESTERDAY'S MB BLOGS:

David Shuster Slams Former Employer: Some FNCers "Would Cut Corners Or Steal Information...[Or] Just Make Things Up" [TVNewser]
MSNBC correspondent David Shuster says his critical reporting about the Bush administration wouldn't have been welcome at his former employer, the Fox News Channel.

Taking Out the Trash [FishbowlDC]
First the big question: What happened at U.S. News & World Report today? Did "The Other Shoe" really drop? Why are the words "mass" and "widespread" being used in conjunction with the words "lay-offs" and "cuts"?

Norm Pearlstine: Turning Lemons Into Lemonade [FishbowlNY]
Just when I was all set to write a non-Judy-Miller-related post, I saw this, from today's Publisher's Lunch: Time, Inc. editor-in-chief Norman Pearlstine's OFF THE RECORD: The Use and Misuse of Anonymous Sources, reflections in the wake of his decision to turn over White House correspondent Matt Cooper's records regarding the Valerie Plame story to a grand jury, to Nan Talese at Nan A. Talese/Doubleday, for publication in 2007, by Lynn Nesbit at Janklow & Nesbit (NA).

Schwarzenegger firmly against celebrity assault [FishbowlLA]
Wow. That darn governor Schwarzenegger. You'd think with all the money he's collected from AMI, not to mention the company's willingness to help him suppress embarrassing incidents from his past, that he'd be sympathetic to the paparazzi who, through their blood, sweat and willingness to invade the privacy of celebrities, keep AMI and other media companies in business.

Watch 'Em Or They'll Rob You Blind [GalleyCat]
Most fantasy readers know (and love) The Last Unicorn, which Peter S. Beagle describes as "the book that people know who don't know anything else I've ever written; it will probably haunt the rest of my career..." The 1982 animated feature (left, click to enlarge) is a cult favorite; the recent DVD release sold at least 300,000 copies in less than two years. But--as Cory Doctorow of Boing Boing discovered last weekend--Beagle's not getting any money from the movie, even though he wrote the screenplay.

Breaking: Woody Pirtle: I'm Out, Suckas! [UnBeige]
The brilliantly named Woody Pirtle is leaving Pentagram after 18 years to go upstate and make his own stuff under his own company,
Pirtle Design.

Writing Clear and Simple [mbToolbox]
Feel that you need to improve your writing? I found this blog, which bills itself as "the writing blog for non-writers" (although writers are not shunned). "Each week, I'll present a short, simple lesson or tip about using words that you can put into action immediately...