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Still No ABC Successor to Jennings (Lowdown)
The management of ABC News and the corporate bosses at Disney are taking their time choosing the next occupant, or occupants, of the World News Tonight anchor chair.

Pocket TV Market Already Exploding (LAT)
Apple has sold 1 million video downloads in the 19 days since it unveiled its video iPod, and NBC will now make video excerpts of The Tonight Show With Jay Leno available for download on Sprint mobile telephones.

He Meant to Say That Miers Was the Sloppy Pick... (NY Sun)
CBS White House correspondent John Roberts apologized yesterday for describing Supreme Court justice nominee Samuel Alito as "sloppy seconds" during a White House press briefing. WaPo: Questions of trust in the press room.

Wenner Execs Continue to Jump Ship (NYP)
Wenner Media was rocked yesterday by its third executive departure in recent weeks as Men's Journal Publisher Carlos La Madrid jumped ship to head Fairchild Publications' Jane. WWD: Tom Foster reportedly discussing Men's Journal EIC position with Wenner.

AOL Founder Drops Off Time Warner Board (NYT)
Stephen M. Case, a founder of America Online and an architect of the ill-fated merger with Time Warner, said yesterday that he had resigned from Time Warner's board.

Geraldo Tries (Not Too Hard) to Overcome Trash-TV Roots (WaPo)
Paul Farhi: Suffice to say, Geraldo Rivera's new show ain't Nightline. Oh, it would be Nightline, if Ted Koppel used sinister-sounding music and swooshing sound effects and did stories on chopper crashes, a transvestite beauty contest and a college TV station that broadcast a porn video. Slate: Sleaze merchant doesn't surprise with sleazy new show, writes Dana Stevens.

Google Will Resume Book Scans (WSJ)
Google will resume scanning copyrighted library books into its search engine after a self-imposed hiatus, despite the efforts of some publishers and authors to block it from doing so.

Mapes on Being 'Swift-Boated' (Vanity Fair)
"If I was an idiot, it was for believing in a free press that is able to do its job without fear or favor," writes ex-CBSer Mary Mapes. "I didn't know that the attack on our story was going to be as effective as a brilliantly run national political campaign."

MTV Will Make Media Strategist President (NYT)
The Viacom network is expected to announce that it has hired Michael J. Wolf, a managing partner in the consulting firm of McKinsey & Company, as its president.

Ryder to Retire From Reader's Digest (Folio:)
The magazine's chairman and CEO Tom Ryder announced today that he will retire at the end of the year and will be succeeded by Eric W. Schrier, global editor-in-chief and president of RD North America.

Harvard Panel Revisits Media Diversity (Harvard Crimson)
"White Ivy League people are the mass of the news world...minorities have to work twice as hard to get the credit," said Marcus Mabry, chief of correspondents and a senior editor of Newsweek.

TV Newswomen: Discrimination Still Exists (B&C)
"It's all very hush-hush. People know, if they go public, it's the end of their career," says Lisa Bloom, a Court TV anchor. "Most claims are settled confidentially."

13 Stations Reject Howard Stern's Replacements (Page Six)
"The incredibly profitable empire Howard built is being splintered, and the execs at Infinity can't keep it together," said an insider.

Trump Trades Barbs With Unauthorized Biographer (NYP)
The feud between Donald Trump and his unauthorized biographer Tim O'Brien escalated after the author yesterday called the developer-turned-TV star a faux billionaire akin to a cartoon character.

Pregnant Britney Sets Elle Records (MIN)
Hachette Filipacchi Media's consumer marketing office says that Spears's "showing" will produce the best October single-copy numbers in the mag's 21-year U.S. history.

Coen's Edge Sharpens Gawker's Bite (PR Week)
As Jessica Coen has propelled the site even further toward the promised land of exquisitely rendered, angry sarcasm, its readership has steadily grown, along with her cadre of tipsters throughout the media world.

Minor Threat (Grade the News)
A straw poll: Should the news media reveal the name of a juvenile murder suspect before the police have charged him?

The Sprit of New Orleans (CJR)
Douglas McCollum: Newspapers, the saying goes, are a daily miracle, and perhaps never has the expression been more apt than at The Times-Picayune in the wake of Katrina.

New CPB Prez Stacks Staff With Right-Wingers (Media Citizen)
Since taking over in June, Patricia de Stacy Harrison, the former co-chair of the Republican National Committee, has brought in senior officers from the State Department group that oversees efforts to "advance U.S. interests and security and to provide the moral basis for U.S. leadership in the world." AP via USAT: Brad Pitt to narrate PBS series.

—David S. Hirschman

IN YESTERDAY'S MB BLOGS:

Behind The Scenes of FNC's P.R. Dept. [TVNewser]
In many one-on-one conversations, I've argued that FNC's public relations operation deserves a significant share of the credit for the network's success. Now PR Week agrees.

Sequel, Sequels, By the Sequel Shore [FishbowlLA]
EXCLUSIVE: Fishbowl L.A. has learned that Lions Gate Films is greenlighting "Saw 3" just twenty four hours after its $30.5 million opening weekend.

Sloppy Seconds [FishbowlDC]
It seems that the hottest non-news media scandal today is CBS' John Roberts and his question to Scott McClellan this morning during the day's gaggle: "Scott, you said that -- or the President said, repeatedly, that Harriet Miers was the best person for the job. So does that mean Alito is sloppy seconds, or what?"

The New York Times Store: Let Judith Miller Hold Your Pencils! [FishbowlNY]
Just in time for the Christmas season the New York Times has opened a little store amongst the holiday shops at Bryant Park.

Oxford Editor's International Sideline [Galleycat]
Last week, Oxford University Press took Dedi Felman, the executive editor of its academic division, and made her the imprint-wide executive editor. It's been a busy week for Felman, to be sure, but she was able to dash off a quick note in response to some Galleycat questions.

Teen People Gets Cooler, Or At Least That's The Idea [Unbeige]
We might be induced to get even more in touch with our latent teenybopperism with the latest redesign of the magazine, courtesy of Us Weekly's former Lori Majewski.

Abstract Concept [MBToolbox]
I try to include elements of all types of writing here, so while most of you might not be writing abstracts anytime soon, there might be one tiny voice in the wilderness who is working on a manuscript they're submitting not to the New Yorker but JAMA.