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Voice Sells Out (WaPo)
The company that publishes The Village Voice and five other alternative newspapers is to announce an agreement to be acquired by New Times Media. VV: Official memo.

Miller's Crossing (E&P)
Greg Mitchell: What, exactly, does a person have to do to get fired at The New York Times? In a busy weekend of rebuke, key players at the newspaper criticized reporter Judith Miller, but all fell short of calling for her dismissal. Newsfeed Extra: Miller, Keller, MoDo and Calame exchange barbs through the weekend. Huffington Post: When will Tim Russert come clean, asks Arianna Huffington. WSJ: Support for Miller wanes at the Times. USAT: "I've never seen anything quite like this," Los Angeles Times political writer Ron Brownstein said Sunday on CNN's Reliable Sources. New York Mag: But what about the senior Times executive at the root of her mess? Sulzberger's not going to fire himself, writes Kurt Andersen. NY Sun Editorial: If Ms. Miller is to be run out of the Times in favor of Ms. Dowd and Mr. Wilson and those who believe, falsely, that the Iraq war was all just an elaborate con job by Mr. Chalabi and his neoconservative allies, then the paper is in even worse straits than we thought. National Journal: Times mess like the Catholic church scandal, writes William Powers.

Glamour Gives Award to Raped Pakistani Woman (AP via Newsday)
A Pakistani woman who won international fame but irked the government for speaking out about her gang rape has been declared Woman of the Year 2005 by the magazine. She's due to receive the award with a $20,000 cash prize.

Not OK! (NYP)
Execs at Richard Desmond's celebrity-friendly mag are furious they shelled out a reported $3 million for the photos of Demi Moore and Ashton Kutcher's wedding, only to receive tasteful, black-and-white shots of the ceremony.

Decoding the Franzen/Marcus Literary Feud (Slate)
Jess Row: It's hard to read Ben Marcus' essay in the current issue of Harper's—with the wonderful tongue-in-cheek title Why Experimental Fiction Threatens to Destroy Publishing, Jonathan Franzen, and Life as We Know It—without asking: Does he really mean it? Title notwithstanding, it seems he really does.

Frasier a Flop on Paper? (LAT)
How can a hit television series like Frasier gross $1.5 billion and yet be $200 million in the red? That's the issue at the center of a recent lawsuit filed against Paramount Pictures by two talent agencies.

Companies Paying Attention to Brand Blogs (NYT)
Some companies are starting to pay attention to blogs dedicated to brand-name goods, using them as a kind of informal network of consumer opinion.

The Most Important Item on the White House Agenda (NYT)
The White House has decided to push hard to stop The Onion, the satirical newspaper, from using the presidential seal.

Reporter Kidnap Highlights Iraq Safety Issues (Guardian)
The Guardian has recalled its Iraq-based reporters to London ahead of a meeting to decide the future of its coverage of the strife-torn nation.

AMC Report: Publishers Must Innovate or Die (Mediaweek)
Stephanie Smith: After two days of debates and discussion, publishers were called upon to innovate; executives spoke of the need for more digital and online products; and advertisers wanted more creative ideas from magazines' marketing teams that cross over into several mediums.

The Parsons Project (B&C)
Dick Parsons: This cable platform is simply the most robust platform out there. I don't feel beleaguered. I don't feel under siege. We've got the best piece of machinery out on the field, and we're taking share from others.

Lois Still Has Resonance (Marketwatch)
Jon Friedman: "I'm here," he said, "to talk about your boring, adoring, butt-kissing magazine covers." Bulls-eye! Lois, 74, perfectly summarized the take-no-chances, conformist mentality that pervades so many magazines today.

Like, uh, TimesSelect? (NYT)
David Carr: Many young people think only suckers pay for content, and many of the country's biggest media companies, including its newspapers, subscribe to the corollary: only losers charge for content.

'Browsers and Breezers' (Texas Monthly)
Robert Rivard, editor of the San Antonio Express-News on not losing readers, not jumping stories, the murder of one of his reporters and what passed for Mexican Justice.

Life, the Docudrama (Newsweek)
'The Colbert Report' succeeds as comedy, opened with strong ratings and seems destined for a long run. What does that tell us about the news business?

WaPo Focuses Online (Washingtonian)
Harry Jaffe: The company's dot-com enterprise is making money "as we measure it internally," says Caroline Little, publisher of Washingtonpost.com, while the downtown daily newspaper is barely
breaking even.

Journalism 'Increasingly Endangered' (Times of London)
Rodney Pinder: Journalists reside so low in public esteem in Britain and much of the rest of the West that we tend to overlook the hundreds, if not thousands, of journalist around the world who are being persecuted and even killed as they strive to keep us informed.

The Cost of Blog Time (AdAge)
In 2005, employees will waste 551,000 work years reading blogs. How much does this really hurt business and our economy?

The Unkindest Snip (Herald Sun)
Australian talk show host Rove McManus's plan to show a vasectomy live on TV has sparked outrage down under.

—David S. Hirschman

IN FRIDAY'S MB BLOGS:

Keith Olbermann Has Flashbacks [TVNewser]
During his interview with Leon Panetta on Thursday's Countdown, Keith Olbermann said: "Every item in a news broadcast has its own page in the computer rundown. And we think, unintentionally, this page in the rundown for tonight's show was given a title by our producer that shook me. The title simply was, 'White House in Crisis.'

Judy Throws It Down and Back! [FishbowlNY]
Good thing no one around here likes drama! Bill Keller's latest memo makes the news and Kit Seelye fact-checks accordingly with La Judita (aka Judith Miller, who by this time needs a grand-sounding nickname)(you hate "La Judita," don't you. Damn).

Sympathy for Scott [FishbowlDC]
Would you rather be Mike McCurry during the Monica Lewinsky scandal? Or Scott McClellan right now? Tough call, but here's a great example of the daily back-and-forth taking place during the White
House press briefings.

The 90 Second LAT [FishbowlLA]
I'm not saying you shouldn't read the whole paper every day. You should. The whole thing. Twice. But if you only have 90 seconds, here's a quick highlights reel:

Ready for My Closeup, Mr. Google [Galleycat]
Meghann Marco (left) is so enthusiastic about Google Print she asked her publisher, Simon & Schuster, to submit her humor book, Field Guide to the Apocalypse, to the program because Google is "the primary way that people find their way to my website, and subsequently, my book."

Sex!!! Oh, and Typography. [UnBeige]
Our boy Armin ('sup, Armin) at SpeakUp has a long review of Sex and Typography, the Princeton Architectural Press-published "catalog" (quotes his, but we're agreeing) that accompanies a show that's up at the National Design Museum in London.

Bad News for Hermits [mbToolbox]
For those of us who prefer to keep to ourselves or a handful of near and dear friends, the concept of having to network in order to survive can be daunting. Poet Kay Ryan discusses the trials of hobnobbing.