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GOP Leaders Launching New Leak Probe (WaPo)
Congress's top Republican leaders demanded an investigation into the disclosure of classified information to The Washington Post that detailed a web of secret prisons being used to interrogate terror suspects. Eschaton: But was it a Republican senator who leaked the information?

Miller, Sulz Closing in on Exit Agreement (NYO)
The end of The New York Times' five-week standoff with reporter Judith Miller appears to be near. The two sides are closing in on a severance agreement, according to sources familiar with the negotiation.

Mapes Still Working on National Guard Story (ABC News)
In her first interview since being fired, the former CBS News producer maintains that her controversial 60 Minutes II story on President Bush's National Guard service was "true." WaPo: "I was extremely battered," Mapes said in an interview. "I'd had months and months of having my head kicked around a soccer stadium by much of the Western world. I needed some time to regroup."

CBS News Meets the New Boss (Public Eye)
On his second day on the job, CBS News President Sean McManus addressed the troops, laying out his early vision for the division and handling questions tossed at him by the likes of Ed Bradley and Andy Rooney.

Fox: Bad Language Isn't Illegal (B&C)
The lewd language of a Fox News Channel executive—however tasteless—does not constitute sexual harassment or discrimination, a lawyer for the network said yesterday.

Only Two Bids for Lunch With Rupe (Guardian)
Five days into a week-long auction on eBay, there appears to be less appetite than expected for the offer of lunch with the world's most powerful media mogul, Rupert Murdoch.

Wintour Trying to Deal With Devil (Radar)
Although Anna Wintour has previously made light of Lauren Weisberger's roman a clef, sources say Wintour has been doing everything in her power to ensure the film version of The Devil Wears Prada fizzles.

In Esquire, Clinton Goes From 'Impeached' to 'Brightest' (MIN)
The Bill Clinton of 2005 is the centerpiece to "Best & Brightest", a series begun by editor David Granger in December 2002 to honor the achievements of mostly unknowns.

Inside TV Struggles to Find Place (WWD)
A latecomer to the celebrity weekly craze, the mag has struggled to find an audience, selling fewer than 200,000 copies per issue, and its parent company, TV Guide, already is having second thoughts.

Cooper Relishes New Role (USAT)
CNN is banking heavily on the combination of Anderson Cooper and veteran anchor Wolf Blitzer in earlier time slots to better challenge No. 1 Fox News.

Times Has Yet to Make Good on Promises (PR Week)
The paper is again acknowledging oversights and pledging change. But a review of recommendations to earn back reader trust from a report earlier this year shows that even some of them have yet to be implemented.

PIB Report Finds Dip in Ad Pages (Folio:)
Consumer magazine advertising revenue for the month of October increased 3.5 percent compared to October of last year. But ad pages, often looked to as the more telling metric, dipped 2.1 percent.

McClellan Deflects Torture Questions Many, Many Times (E&P)
Yesterday's White House press briefing featured efforts by reporters to get Scott McClellan to explain the apparent contradiction between his claims that the U.S. does not torture anyone and Vice President Cheney's request for an exemption.

Teen People Who Hate People (NYP)
The mag, edited by Lori Majewski, has apparently scored an exclusive interview with controversial teenage white supremacist twins, Lynx and Lamb Gaede, who have a band called Prussian Blue and are popular at neo-Nazi events.

The Sore Apprentice (Lowdown)
Florida entrepreneur Mark Garrison—aka "Markus," whom Trump terminated during last Thursday's installment of the series—complains that the producers used video clips out of sequence to make him look like a gibbering idiot.

HBO Queen Ogling Koppel (NYO)
Sheila Nevins has built the HBO documentary unit up from the modest operation it was when she took over in 1979 to the rarefied bastion of long-form television journalism it is today. USAT: HBO hibernating for the winter.

Google and Copyright Laws (Salon)
Farhad Manjoo: Google's new search engine of books puts a world of knowledge at our fingertips. Publishers say the Internet giant is robbing them of their rightful fees. Maybe it's time to call copyright laws history.

Papers Feed 'Awesome Stupidity of the Common Herd' (Slate)
Jack Shafer: Bogus trend stories combine low-budget sociology, cheap thinking, sweeping generalizations, available anecdotes, and audience pandering to fatten readers with idiocy.

The Month of MoDo (NYO)
Suzy Hansen: It's hard to keep in mind that Are Men Necessary? isn't the cry "Men won't screw smart women—shout-out to my girls Michi and Alessandra!" scrawled over and over and over again. E&P: Dowd ends TimesSelect boycott.

Repairing Journalism (VV)
Syd Schanberg: There never was a golden age of journalism—just as there has never been a golden age of medicine, law, education, or any other craft, calling, or profession. But in all such pursuits, there are times when it becomes clear that serious reforms are necessary.

Redbook Reporter Refuses to Reveal Source of Recipe (The Onion)
Parody: Despite the writer's staunch refusals, a prosecutor said that she "absolutely must be allowed" to probe the recipe to the fullest extent, which means interviewing the individual who leaked it to Redbook.

—David S. Hirschman

IN YESTERDAY'S MB BLOGS:

Cooper Welcomes 360 Viewers: 'I Hope You Don't Mind The New Car Smell' [TVNewser]
"You know, if you're joining 360 for the first time tonight, I want to thank you," Cooper said in his intro.

843,432 or 869,819? [FishbowlLA]
One of those numbers is the average daily circulation for the LAT over the past six months. E&P reports the lower number; the LAT press release uses the higher one.

Taking Another Leak [FishbowlDC]
Sure, we've been to the dark alleys of Adams Morgan on Saturday night. And if you thought leaking was popular there...you obviously haven't seen how hot it is on Capitol Hill.

Esquire, Ethan Hawke and delicious little soups, Cont'd. [FishbowlNY]
"Esquire Downtown" is the mag's full-scale ridiculous wraparound apartment on Astor Place, done up all fancy by a whole bunch of designers.

We Half-Expected the Punchline to Be "Supplies!" [Galleycat]
If you haven't seen Tod Goldberg's eyewitness account of Dean Koontz being a racist jerk, it's not to be missed.

Imagine What Paola's Going Through [Unbeige]
Our bff Paola Antonelli was and is the brains and brawn behind the operation, Humble Masterpieces, a book based on last year's MoMA QNS exhibition of the same name.

How Much Do You Gild Those Lilies? [MBToolbox]
Now, just how fancy do we make those clips?