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Judy: I Was Pinched (CNN)
Larry King Live Transcript: "I really don't know what kind of brought about this 40-day tsunami on me, these attacks after I came out of jail," says Judith Miller, "but I am very comfortable with the decision that I made."

Pinch: Judy Who? (E&P)
Arthur Suzlberger Jr., publisher of The New York Times, defended the newspaper's role in the Plame legal case. He declared that "morale is just great" at his paper today.

Survey: Public TV News Most Trusted (B&C)
Some Republicans have griped about the fairness and balance of public broadcasting's news, but according to a new study, it is the most trusted in the land, topping Fox News Channel, CNN, the broadcast network news operations and major newspapers.

Election Ads Bring in Big Bucks for TV (NYP)
The $515 million spent on television spots, including elections and political issue ads, blew past the $300 million in 2003, the last off-year election season. In New York alone, the mayoral candidates spent more than $44 million saturating the airwaves.

People Power (NYP)
While most of the celebrity magazines have been having a brutal late summer and fall, the No. 1 title in the field, People, with Martha Nelson at the helm, appears to be on a particularly strong roll.

Industry Salutes Black, Buckley (AdAge)
Cathleen P. Black, president at Hearst Magazines, and William F. Buckley Jr., founder and editor-at-large of National Review, have been chosen to receive the magazine industry's two highest honors.

Tokion Sold (Folio:)
Adam Glickman, publisher of the self-proclaimed cultural bridge between the indie arts scenes of Japan and the U.S., announced that he has sold the majority of in the magazine to investor Larry Rosenblum.

Pulp Friction (Economist)
Internet companies like Google are racing to get books online, but publishers, determined to make sure that they will benefit from the digitization of their product, are understandably wary.

Al Jaz Struggles to Break Into U.S. (Guardian)
Nigel Parsons, the head of Al-Jazeera International, said it was proving difficult to persuade American cable companies to give the channel space on their platforms.

Knight Ridder and the Curse of the Second Tier (BusinessWeek)
Jon Fine: Few newspaper execs or even industry analysts have much bad to say about Tony Ridder's tenure. Ridder did as well as can be expected given the cards he was dealt. Grade The News: The San Jose Newspaper Guild circulated a memo yesterday warning that were Knight Ridder to sell off some of its newspapers, the purchaser could cancel union contracts, fire the staff and unilaterally set new wages and working conditions. AP via Yahoo!: Investor turns up heat on Knight Ridder.

But 'Existing' Is SO 1998 (WWD)
Sara James: In the oddest footnote yet to The New York Times' post-Jayson Blair/Judith Miller credibility saga, editors at the Times Magazine recently scrapped a piece by author J.T. LeRoy over concerns he may not exist.

Shine on You Crazy Housewife (Radar)
Fox News is under fire yet again for its allegedly sexist work environment. But women at the old-boy's network might be a little more understanding if they'd read the new self-help book by stay-at-home mom Darla Shine—the wife of Fox News chief Roger Ailes's number two exec.

Playboy Drops $12M on Online Infrastructure (Folio:)
The company purchased an "online distribution business" called ICS, and is also attempting to buy back all of the outstanding equity of Playboy.com.

Zillionth Dirge for Newspapers Sung (AFP)
Newspapers have no future without online and digital services, media executives heard at a World Association of Newspapers meeting in Madrid. Within "six to seven years", the group planned to dedicate 80 percent of its time to digital activities.

News Corp. Exceeds Wall St. Expectations (FT)
Rupert Murdoch expressed frustration at the stock market's failure to recognize News Corporation's strong financial growth as the media company is delivering stronger financial growth than its media peers.

Breaking!: Cheney Ginned Up Iraq Intel (Center for American Progress)
Eric Alterman: Why all the surprise on the part of the press corps about a story that they no doubt already know so well? We're really being given recycled news, now that the damage has been done and the liars revealed.

Bushies Bash Ink-Stained Wretches (NYT)
Politicians have worked to undermine the mainstream press, says CQ's Craig Crawford in his new book Attack the Messenger.

Disaster TV Series Lives Up to Its Genre (LAT)
Al Martinez: No disaster, large or small, escapes the watchful eyes of those who produce movies and miniseries. And although a little late for the hurricane season, here comes CBS' take, the greatest disaster of them all.

—David S. Hirschman

IN YESTERDAY'S MB BLOGS:

Rather Returns To 60 Min. Sunday [TVNewser]
"For the first time since Dan Rather stepped down as anchor of CBS Evening News last spring, a report he prepared" will air on 60 Minutes this Sunday night, CBS has confirmed.

Dot dot.com: 52 year old Army column gets only a 70 day retirement [FishbowlLA]
Variety's Army Archerd...is...back. And so are his dots. Variety.com editor Alex Romanelli today announced that Archerd's icon-suffused column about Hollywood's just-married, recently-deceased and newly-employed has been revived, with a new home - on the web.

The Pajama Game: Footies for Judith Miller? [FishbowlNY]
Next week will see the official launch of novelist, screenwriter and uber-blogger Roger L. Simon's Pajamas Media...

More Judith M... [FishbowlDC]
Finally, we can say something nice about a Judy:

Koontz Defends Lame Racist Humor [Galleycat]
The flap over Dean Koontz's "Mr. Teriyaki" jokes at a mystery writer's luncheon last weekend spilled over from the blogosphere to the mainstream media today...

The Humble Masterpieces/SAFE Book Party Rocked Our Reality [Unbeige]
OMG. We met Judith Regan.

Software Showdown [MBToolbox]
I'm a PC user the way I'm a Catholic: I was raised that way.