A suspect? A suspect? We knew there was a second shooter.

In practical terms, no, of course not. Google is still the best, fastest, most useful, and most verbed search engine out there. But it's also been the recipient of glowing press coverage for nearly as long as it has been around. And you have to imagine that the good media fortune will eventually run out. (The press? Mercurial? You think?)

• As the news business reels — layoffs, papers for sale, Google Base, Judy Miller — j-students become even more characteristically naive and optimistic. [USAT]
• Jon Friedman thinks Adam Moss's New York can be one of the legendarily great magazines, like Gurley Brown's Cosmo, Ross and Shawn's New Yorkers, or Felker's New York. Moss's staffers, meantime, are all afraid they're going to be fired. [MW]
• This just in: Howie Kurtz has conflicting roles, covering media for both WP and CNN. As he has for years. [NYT]
• Times public editor Barney Calame's latest earth-shattering announcement: "Anonymous sourcing can be both a blessing and a curse for journalism." [NYT]
• Miller got axed and Woodward won't because Woodward's one of the cool kids and Miller isn't. Or something like that. [BG]
• On CNN, Maureen Dowd — did you know she wrote a book? — calls for more female columnists. [E&P]

Oh, Alessandra. We do so admire your ability to come up with new and creative factual inaccuracies week in and week out. Like in Friday's review of NBC's Poseidon Adventure remake, in which you wrote:

It's the $64,000 question: How much severance did Judy Miller get from the Times? Today's Page Six carries the first published speculation on the matter, saying "guesses range as high as $3 million." The specifics:

This morning's Times reports the mildly terrifying news that Walmart, in a bid to expand its consumer base into slightly classier folks, has begun selling high-priced jewelry on its website.

For no good reason except that someone sent it in, and that we've been picking on her a bit lately, we thought we'd pass along this photo of a very, very happy Times shopper Alex Kuczynski at a recent Madeira School alumnae event held in New York.

The spelling-bee news reporter earlier apparently moved a reader to conduct some Alex Kuczynski reseach today. How, he wondered, has her career as an author fared?

On August 24, we ran the following bout of nostalgia from a reader:

Though we long ago buried our relationship with the dilapidated New York Press, apparently someone at the Times is still dutifully reading the alt-weekly (perhaps hoping for a miracle). Thus, in Patrick Healy's November 6th article, New York Press gets a mention for endorsing Democratic punching bag Ferrer — but not to the pleasure of Press editors. In their latest issue, the Press writes:

• Come on, Pinch, you're breaking poor Tom Scocca's heart. [NYO]
• Was Bob Woodward the first reporter to learn of Valerie Plame's identity? And why didn't he mention that to anyone till now? [WP]
• Ah, but at least Ben Bradlee says it's OK Woodward didn't tell his nominal bosses. [E&P]
• Turns out Bush-crony public-broadcasting chief Kenneth Tomlinson — you know, the guy determined to get more conservatives on PBS — broke all sorts of laws and regulations. [NYT]
• Who's to blame for Arrested Development's (latest) demise. America, obviously. [NYO]
• Rupert: This internet thing is gonna be huge! [Hollywood Reporter]
• What reference in a headline will conclusively show that boomer media dominance is over? [Slate]
• MSNBC's Chris Matthews name-drops, and Jon Friedman loves him anyway. [MW]

Just to prove that we never exaggerated intelligence reports regarding our yellowcake, here's the Billy's Bakery confection that was delivered to our Millerpalooza Sweepstakes winner Sunday afternoon.

• American Press Institute launches $2 million project to figure out the future of newspapers. By all current evidence: Death. [E&P]
• How will Nightline survive post-Koppel? Standards, dammit, says Koppel. [USAT]
• Bob Woodward grew up and turned in his father, metaphorically speaking. [VV]
• Bill Keller has a "serious case of Judy Miller fatigue." Just like everyone else. [Daily Princetonian]
• Media transparency is busting out all over. Yay! [LAT]
• Liberals don't listen to the radio or watch much TV, says NBC chief. And it's for genetic reasons. [B&C]
• Aaron Brown is the king of lunch. Also, he'd take the ABC or CBS jobs, if they were offered. We would, too. [Phil. Inquirer]
• The Judy World Tour continues, last night at George Washington University. [FishbowlDC]
• Peacock to Martha: You're fired! [WP]

Look! She's happy! Single and happy! Veryfuckinghappy!
Times Op-Ed diva Maureen Dowd just appeared on the Today show to discuss her much-discussed new book, the very discussion-worthy Are Men Necessary? None too surprisingly, she sat down with Matt Lauer (though we would've loved to see a power struggle with Couric). A loose transcription of the interview's end:

The rakishly obsessive Reference Tone somehow found time in the wee hours of this morning to fact-check today's Stanley effort — and, naturally, finds a fuck up:

The first step in any civil-rights movement is building awareness. And so we feel it incumbent upon ourselves to help one Colleen Sussman, whose letter to the editor of the Times was consigned to merely the City section, get word out about her plight.

• Is Judy Miller now a right-wing hero? Wait, what was she before the war, then? [NYM]
• Andrew Sullivan to move his blog to Time.com. Sellout! MSM! All those other things we're supposed to say! Yada yada yada. [NYP]
• Bob Schieffer to stay longer as CBS Evening News anchor. [NYT]
• Times to launch quarterly sports mag. [NYP]
• Esquire likes undulating apartments. [NYT]
• Google considers offering book rentals, sort of. [Reuters via Yahoo]
• Ruth Reichl reads The Bruni Digest. Bruni doesn't. Or so he says. [AP via Yahoo]

Judy Miller has been the biggest medialand story of the last several weeks, and it all came to a head last week. It cost the woman her job and the Times yet more of its esteem, it raised questions about erstwhile savior Bill Keller's executive editorship, and it embarrassed the dauphin publisher to the point where there are now whispers about whether his family should try to replace him. Everyone who covers media has been talking about it incessantly — the Observer's Gabriel Sherman, seemingly, has been following Miller from Sag Harbor to Balthazar to wherever she might next alight, like a particularly devoted and unusually inquisitive puppy dog — including dueling Larry King and Charlie Rose hours Thursday night.

"Since it began in 2001, 'Criminal Intent' has showcased Mr. D'Onofrio as the maddeningly sensitive, eccentric Detective Goren. The series is structured differently from the original or its sex crimes spinoff, 'Law & Order: Special Victims Unit.' The focus does not shift to the prosecutors partway through."
— Alessandra Stanley, "A 'Law & Order' Spinoff Acquires Some Reinforcements," NYT, Nov. 11, 2005

The race was a nail-biter, but we're pleased to see — and Judy Miller herself is no doubt relieved — that you've chosen as her most likely next step one that follows in the footprints of the last prominently disgraced career Timesperson. Howell Raines, the hard-charging, Jayson-enabling executive editor, stepped down in June 2003, and the only significant thing we've heard from him since was his 20,000-word angry, self-righteous, self-pitying Atlantic cover essay, published the next June.