• Post headline promises way more than it delivers. [NYP]
•Film editor Dennis Lim is the latest casualty at the Village Voice. At this rate David Blum is going to run out of former students to fill all the open slots. [Anthony Kaufman]
•Fortune claims that female media CEOs are losing influence in relation to other lady businessmen. We don't know. Time Chair Ann Moore laid off about a million people this year, you don't get more influential than that. [WWD]
•New York magazine creator Clay Felker is in a nursing home. There will be no joke. [Forbes]

• The blood will continue to spill at Time; Jon Meacham shakes things up at Newsweek. [NYP]
• In another attempt to emulate Esquire, Radar looks to move into their old space. Up next: A piece on how sexy Scarlett Johansson is. [NYO]
• Jon Friedman met Jimmy Carter once! Also, Jon hates the media. We feel ya, bro. [Marketwatch]
• Are we the only ones getting a little tired of hearing about Roger Ailes? [Romenesko]
• Jes s D az Jr. resigned as publisher of the Miami Herald after a power struggle with columnist Carl Hiaasen. How come no one resigned back when Dave Barry made his 5,000th booger joke? [Miami Herald]

Think you're having a bad week? Give a little sympathy to Ernie Schreiber, who had to cancel his vacation because he works for the local paper in Lancaster, PA, where news broke in rather dramatic fashion yesterday. Editor & Publisher profiles the the New Era in a piece that throws up a variety of odd details. For example, stories are posted to the paper's website before they hit print, which we're sure is of great utility to the local Amish. But the most interesting quote comes at the end of the piece:

• Jes s D az Jr. resigns as publisher of the Miami Herald and El Nuevo Herald as a result of that whole cash-for-propaganda thing. Hopefully the government will give him some nice parting gifts. [Miami Herald]
• Across the pond, the company responsible for the UK versions of Cosmopolitan, Good Housekeeping and Country Living decides to get heavy into the Web. Somewhere in England a blogger at a British media gossip site starts thinking about career opportunities. [Guardian]
• More people are actually interested in watching Charlie Gibson than Katie Couric. We can't quite figure that out. [WaPo]
• Enough with the goddamn CGI already. [NYT]

We offer our thanks to the readers who so quickly identified the man whose face inaccurately illustrates today's THR story about disgraced, page-baiting congressman Mark Foley. As many of you pointed out, the not-so-mystery man in the photo is Jack Foley, the president of distribution for Focus Features, whom at least two readers described as "one of the nicest guys in the business," a compliment we imagine is not being applied to the former House representative from Florida these days. We've included a clarifying side-by-side image above to help clear up any residual confusion.

A Defamer operative just sent us a scan of today's THR story on Rep. Mark Foley, the Congressional Missing and Exploited Children's Caucus chairman accused of the filthily ironic cybercrime of sending sexually explicit e-mails and IMs to underage male pages, which seems to misidentify a dark-haired, bespectacled man as the disgraced Congressman. Our question to you: Who's the guy in the picture? Our political consult with our sibling Wonkette turned up no answer, and we'd love to know who's been on the receiving end of endless prank e-mails and instant messages centering around the clumsy online seduction of office interns.

• Felix Dennis will never see a broad as costly as a tree. Also, it takes a lot of dosh to get people drunk enough to listen to your doggerel. [Radar]
• On the other hand, anyone who calls Greg Gutfeld "Darth Vader," must have his finger on some kind of pulse. And, look forward to The Week on the web. [Independent UK]
• Judy McGrath is going to be just fine, thank you very much. Buying MySpace is not the be all and end all of running a media empire. Unless, uh, you're Tom Freston. [NYT]
• ABC News reports news that ABC Newsman considers Matt Drudge the Walter Cronkite of our era, excepting for that fact that Walter Cronkite never falsely accused a presidential aide of wife-beating. [ABC News]
• Bob Woodward saves the good stuff for himself and other newspapers who are willing to buy his book in advance of their sell-dates. [NYT]
• Yahoo! not sexy enough for investors, apparently. [NYP]
• Something is happening to press freedom in Canada. We'd be all up in arms if it weren't, you know, Canada. [NYT]

• Could Tom Freston replace NBC Chief Executive Bob Wright? We're hoping yes, because a) we still blame Jeff Zucker for Hidden Hills, and b) Freston-Moonves II will make Ali-Frazier II look like Tyson-McNeely. [NYP]
• There's nothing more painful than admitting that Mark Cuban is right, but, you know, Mark Cuban is right. [Reuters]
• The Post has a brand new website with spiffy features including blogs, gossip news, and a celebrity-sighting map that is a complete and total rip-off of Gawker Stalker. [NYP]
• Rachael Ray's friends as annoying, talentless as Rachael Ray. [Radar]

• NYP's Tim Arango becomes only reporter in last month not snapped up by Portfolio; he's going to Fortune. [NYO]
• NewsCorp buys up a bunch of metropolitan-area newspapers. Expect them to be rebranded as Queenist and Only the Paper Knows Brooklyn any day now. [NYT]
• If David Geffen buys the LAT will the paper be able to cover his friends fairly? Speaking as the employees of a gay media magnate ourselves, we're gonna say no. [DHD]

A Defamer operative on vacation in Australia sent us this camera-phone dispatch from a local newsstand, which once again demonstrates how far American tabloids are lagging behind their overseas competitors in gossip-disseminating technology. Us Weekly, People, and In Touch should be scrambling to replicate whatever advances the Aussie rag Famous have already achieved, which seem to include the ability to fetch stories of celebrity tragedy from the future for present-day reporting.

Who knew that doing good could also mean doing well? Hot on the heels of our flood-the-zone Good coverage comes word of Benefit, "a new San Francisco-based magazine, which concentrates on local philanthropy and the lifestyle of giving." And they're going to be profitable in "a few months - likely early 2007!" Or at least that's what they claim in this call for interns. Frankly, if the market can support two of these magazines, we don't see why there can't be more. We eagerly anticipate Dennis Publishing's lad mag version, Altruistic Dickhead.

• Newsweek stands resolute against Gawker's jeers that "while [its recent Annie Leibovitz] story tells of Leibovitz's life and her long-term friendship with the late Susan Sontag, it skips around the question of Leibovitz's sexual orientation." As long as we're jeering, how come there was no mention of Annie running off with the nanny? [NYP]
• No uncomfortable questions were asked at the Bill Keller/Patricia Dunn dinner. Thank God, that would be so tactless. [NYO]
• For those of you who find Rachael Ray insufferably cloying, which should be all of you, maybe Gourmet's Ruth Reichl will be an improvement. RELATED: We get it, Bill Buford, you like cooking. [WWD]

• Metro, the other free paper you avoid being handed as you walk into the subway, has fired EIC Mark Moore. [E&P]
• Let's all take a moment to reflect on poor Sumner Redstone, whose $1.75 million Viacom salary has been cut to $1M. Of course, he also got a $3M stock option grant, which eases the sting a little. [NYP]
• What unnamed douchebag told Tom Freston "Oh my gosh - you are so brave to be doing this party! So many people must be asking you about being fired! Don't worry, you'll be fine! Good luck!"? Our money's on Stableford. [NYP]

The public-schooled plebs will no doubt be pressed against the exterior of the Core Club tonight, pathetically trying to feel the magic emanating from the most fabulous event since last week — the launch party for 02138, the new Harvard glossy magazine not-officially-for-alums-but-really-for-alums. (The mag is apparently too hip for the Harvard Club — that, or they blew their financial wad on the magazine's "board of advisors," which includes the likes of Kurt Andersen and Steve Brill.) As mentioned last week, the first issue features the Harvard 100, a list of influential alumni. Included in this much-needed ranking of underrecognized and humble grads individuals:

• You'll find a lot of information in this David Carr piece on how journalists are forced to act like C.I.A. agents, "encoding files, shredding notes and switching cellphones." What you won't find is any mention of the Observer, which reported essentially the same story two Wednesdays ago. [NYT]
• Nancy Grace, desperate to wrest the title of World's Most Vile Human Being from Ann Coutler, adds plagiarism to her list of sins. Ann Coulter is 45. [NYDN]
• Chris Wallace was stunned that a non-confrontational question suggesting that Bill Clinton was responsible for the deaths of 3,000 American citizens might have been taken the wrong way. [FishbowlDC]
• James Truman, footloose and fancy free, is learning to live without Conde cash. Culture and Travel launches Friday. [NYT]
• Jon Friedman wonders why H-P never tapped his phone. Maybe it's because when you write columns like "The media world is in convulsions" you're pretty much identifying yourself as someone who has no new information. [Marketwatch]

Yes, this is exactly what it looks like. The Guardian reports:

• The Nation takes on the Washington Times: "The vast majority of people who read it don't realize that this paper is in bed with bigots and white supremacists." Funny, we thought that the vast majority of people who read it were bigots and white supremacists. [Nation]
• Michael Massing thinks financial pressures are affecting the press' ability to do its job. [ETP]
• Tony Judt thinks it's because liberals are pussies these days. [LRB]
• Either way, things aren't going well financially for the liberal pussies at the Times. [AP]

• About 200,000 people have actually shelled out fifty dollars for TimesSelect. Men may not be necessary, but Maureen Dowd's money apparently is. [E&P]
• What was new H-P CEO Mark Hurd doing during the whole "let's spy on journalists" affair? Ratting out his co-directors. [WSJ]
• Troops stand down at LAT amid temporary truce. [NYT]
• Chad Hurley: Business hippie. [NYP]

· Chan "Cat Power" Marshall apparently has dreams of joining SNL, perhaps feeling that the recent departures have opened up opportunities for someone who seems like a logical choice to deliver the next feline AIDS joke.
If Borat is going to be on the cover of Vanity Fair, does that mean he's going to finally address those nasty eating disorder rumors and make startling revelations about a childhood molestation at the hands of a goat-herding uncle?
Blogger Jim Treacher wonders if Defaker is written by Aaron Sorkin himself, who probably has too much time on his hands since getting ahead on scripts.
· EW is losing its "spiritual leader," and Gawker already beat us to the letter grade joke.
· Has anyone whipped up Save Baquet t-shirts yet? There's some money waiting to be made.
As he exits The Daily Show, Ben Affleck was mobbed by the very paparazzi whose too-loving attention he celebrated with Jon Stewart just moments earlier.

Brendan Nyhan pops up on Time.com's new political website to discuss the recent severing of his relationship with lefty mag The American Prospect. Nyhan resigned on Friday, after top brass decided he was being too evenhanded. Nyhan's essay brings up some interesting points about how the rise of political blogs is affecting the fiscal health of partisan print magazines like TAP, but we've got a feeling that there was something else in the story that resonated with Time.com Washington editor Ana Marie Cox. After all, the tale of a Prospect employee parting ways with the magazine for failing to toe the liberal line has to resonate with her on some level. Memo to TAPpers: If you can't sing "Joe Hill" in unison, you might be better off singing somewhere else.