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Designer Marc Jacobs Wants To Be on TV (New York Mag)
Attention, TV producers looking for non-scripted projects: Marc Jacobs wants his own reality show. "I'm really into my life right now," he said at the Accessories Council's Ace Awards on November 5. What would his show be about? "Everything, all aspects of my life. All the drama, the intrigue, the sex, the romance, the work. I'm a shameless human being."

British Paper Withdraws Pakistan Correspondents (AP)
Britain's Daily Telegraph newspaper said that it had withdrawn its Pakistan correspondents over an editorial last week which contained an expletive. The editorial, which was critical of Pakistani President Pervez Musharraf, prompted the president to say on Sunday that he expected an apology from the daily.

British TV Writers Warned Against U.S. Strike Breaking (Guardian)
The Writers Guild of Great Britain has pitched into the Hollywood battle over digital distribution rights, calling for U.K. writers to support the strike and not supply material to U.S. broadcasters. WGGB has urged its members not to fill in for their colleagues on U.S. TV shows, saying that strike breaking would reap only short-term pay and have devastating affects on American writers.

Cheap Laughs Take Bite Out of Network Comedy's Bottom Line (AdAge)
Simon Dumenco: The real problem facing writers is that while other unionized writer-written big media products, such as ABC's Lost, are generally irreplaceable in the pop-cultural ecosystem — addictive, mass-market drama doesn't tend to bubble up from the grass roots as free, user-generated content — comedy is cheaper and more ubiquitous (hello, viral videos!) than ever.

Game News in a Duel of Print and Online (NYT)
The challenge for video game magazine publishers is retaining readers as the Internet grabs their audience and advertisers. Why wait for a monthly mailing when the Web has fresh game reviews, articles and tips on how to beat the games? In the last few months, the two biggest publishers — Ziff Davis Media and Future US — have been trying to tip the balance back in their favor.

European Tabloids Still Agog Months After Child Vanishes (NYT)
Six months after Madeleine McCann, then three years old, disappeared from her family's vacation apartment in Portugal, no development in the case seems too small to merit a banner headline — even the news that her father had returned to his job as a doctor. Similarly, no story is too speculative, and no sensational leak can be reported often enough.

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