Newspaper editors have long fretted about the keyword-linked ads provided by Google and others. "What if airline ads appear next to a story about a plane crash?" they ask. But they appear to be so busy worrying about the ads that they're not minding unfortunate collisions of stories. This morning, the website of The Chattanoogan displayed a photo of a plane crash next to a news story about a startup airline, Skybus, expanding to the paper's Tennessee hometown.

We're adding "Ted Turner's publicist" to the list of jobs we could not be paid enough to take. Says Ted to his minder during an interview: "I DON'T NEED YOU FOR THAT! YOU'RE JUST AN OLD PUSSY! YOU'RE JUST AN OLD PUSSY! YOU'RE JUST A LITTLE MOTHER HEN. [in falsetto] "WE'VE GOTTA DO THIS! WE'VE GOTTA DO THAT!" [back to regular voice] THIS IS IMPORTANT! THIS IS MORE IMPORTANT!" Wow, he kisses Robert Olen Butler's ex-wife with that mouth? [HuffPo]

"A website that asks viewers to rate a woman's body would hardly be a new phenomenon in the voyeuristic world of the lads' magazine market. But what if the girls being rated were as young as 10? Or that the people judging them were not leering pubescent boys but their peers; other young girls? That is the startling reality of modern girl's magazines as they go online. Titles such as Mizz and Bliss are taking their website cues from an unlikely source: the 'lads' mag.' A report has investigated this relationship, particularly citing one magazine website that encouraged girls to upload photos of themselves so 10 of their body parts could be subject to scrutiny and online rating." You know what the problem with articles like this is? They NEVER give you the link to the magazine websites. [Independent]

Rupert Murdoch appeared at the Goldman Sachs Communacopia conference yesterday (uh, WTF, Goldman Sachs, was Communapalooza taken?) and strongly hinted that he was going to take the Wall Street Journal's website free. He also outlined the ways in which News Corp. would use the paper to bolster its new Fox Business Channel.

Callously ignoring the eyeliner-streaked exhortations of America's next top reality television star, Us Weekly refuses to release its pit-bull like grip on the neck of the utterly defenseless Britney Spears, continuing its weeks-long, cover-based assault with their new MOMMY'S CRYING! issue.

"Why Is Bob Herbert Boring?" It's something we ask ourselves every Tuesday and Saturday; While Herbert probably has the second most-interesting personal life of all Times op-ed columnists (after MoDo), he rates an absolute first for utter dullness. [Washington Monthly]

Perhaps influenced by The New York Times recently setting its Web site free, Rupert Murdoch chimes in, saying "Me too." He's still leaning towards banishing the Wall Street Journal's online subscription model. [Reuters]

Each morning we wake up, open the front door, grab the newspaper, look at the forecast for the day's high temperature, and dress based on that forecast. (Occasionally we also shower.) And every day, around noon, we find ourselves complaining that we're too hot because the paper was completely wrong. So we asked Intern Mary to track the weekday results of the city's three major papers and the New York Sun against the actual high temperatures over a two-week period. She also looked at the online predictions, for those of you who get your news that way. Her findings may surprise you!

Good news/bad news for the debut week of "TMZ": "The good news: More viewers watched the half-hour than any other new five-a-weeker. The bad: 'TMZ' was down 25% from the year-ago time period and down 17% from its lead-in." Analysts caution that it's too early to make any judgment based on these numbers: "[W]hen daylight saving time ends on Nov. 4, and it gets dark earlier, more people will head indoors to watch TV." Also, people are only getting stupider, so that should help. [Variety]

The third issue of Portfolio—on newsstands this week!—will not feature an editor's letter from Joanne Lipman. Someone tell Graydon Carter that this is a really good idea. [WWD]

The Times finally gets around to noting this coming Sunday's launch of Page Six The Magazine. New York Post magazine editor Col Allan notes that the Post isn't just aiming at the New York Daily News; the Times itself is a target. Why? Well, the Times reminds you, "The Times' Sunday magazines—a century-old weekly, and four new, less frequent ones—attract a lot of ads and are important money-makers for the newspaper." Duly noted! And clearly necessary! Another Rupert Murdoch publication, the Wall Street Journal, has announced its launch of a glossy magazine resurrecting the "Pursuits" rubric. Robert Frank, the paper's chronicler of rich people, is expected to play a large role in the monthly mag. It's just so nice to see everyone at every newspaper on the same page (as it were). Maybe later they will start making money on the internets!

In one of the odder contretemps of our time, New York Times perfume critic Chandler Burr has gone off on gossip sheet Page Six over their description of Out magazine as a "gay-lifestyle mag." Says Burr: "'gay lifestyle' is a purely political term with a purely political meaning, and it's simply, factually inaccurate." We're siding with him on this: Out is obviously a "gay lifestyle magazine" but it is not a "gay-lifestyle magazine." We find Burr's understanding of hyphenation and compound adjectives rather unspeakably hot, and now we would very much like him to criticize our perfumes, if you know what we mean, wink wink. But more importantly: Is the "gay lifestyle mag" in trouble? Its ad pages are looking rough.

Who is to blame for the lad mag message that women are there to gratify men's sexual urges? "This current generation of young women who believe they will find any sort of satisfaction, emotional or sexual, through allowing themselves to become the sex objects of young men's fantasies are fueling a sorry state of affairs. They want to be taken seriously, but, by behaving like this, no one can blame the young men who treat them like sex objects and little else." [Daily Mail U.K.]

Basically all the black people in fashion got together this morning. Iman! Naomi! Andre! Robin Givhan! The report: "Agents don't search for black models because they don't think they can sell; designers don't book black models because they feel no need to; magazine editors don't pick black models because, once again, they don't think they'll sell magazines." [Fashion Bomb]

You can teach old media new tricks. The New York Times posted its first video to the editor sent in by film maker Charles Ferguson as a rebuttal to an Op-Ed on the disbandment of the Iraq army. [Editor & Publisher]

In the category of "the best defense is a good offense": The editors at BusinessWeek are not interested in anyone's analysis of why their website's traffic lags Forbes.com and Fortune.com—even when it says they're not to blame. Silicon Alley Insider's Peter Kafka tried to give them a break, yesterday, saying that a 24/7wallstreet.com report blaming their crappy numbers on crappy content was faulty analysis; they were actually the victims of poor distribution. Fortune.com, for example, benefits from all the traffic at CNMoney.com, while BusinessWeek.com stands alone on the web. Yet editor-in-chief John Byrne responded by saying that the ComScore numbers were completely wrong. Yes, they probably understated the case, but they weren't completely out of the ballpark, even according to Kafka. So the question remains: why DO they lag so far behind the other financial sites? I'd pick poor distribution. It's a lot easier to fix.

"CNN is permanently shifting to taped programming for the second hour of "Anderson Cooper 360," scaling back an ambitious programming block created in 2005 to showcase the studio and field-reporting talents of Cooper, who it viewed as an emerging star." Uh oh! [Variety] UPDATE: Meouch, CNN is calling Variety all kinds of wrong on this one.

Dan Golden has announced he would rather work for Joanne Lipman at Portfolio (as a senior editor) than Rupert Murdoch at the Wall Street Journal. (Well, he was in the Boston bureau, and we'd work for Bonnie Fuller or Satan to get out of Boston, so.) Two related things: First, we heard a big editor at the WSJ quit right after the Murdoch and Col Allan visit last week. Second, wow, isn't Portfolio on a major lockdown right now? Not a PEEP out of that place in weeks! [Romenesko]

Nice piece on the New York memorial service for the late Texas columnist. [NYO]

Congratulations to the LA Times: With the appointment of David Lauter as California editor, now "all masthead editors at the Times will be white men pushing 50 (or 60 in some cases) except for Melissa McCoy, deputy ME for copy desks, design and production." [LA Observed]