The Times introduces a bold new advertising initiative, clearly designed to lure the urban community into purchasing single archives at $3.95 a pop.

Oh, thank you so much, little Addison Miller.

Big news today: Former Arts & Leisure doyenne Jodi Kantor, having officially abdicated her editorial throne, has her first post-reign byline. Congrats, Jodi! Welcome to the, uh, fold!

We're late on this, we realize, but it's still worth pointing out all the tenants contractually forbidden from the new New York Times building, as reported this week in the Voice:

Between the day job and another project we're in the middle of, we worked about a ten-hour day yesterday. Then last night we met an old coworker for a few drinks, which turned into more than a few drinks, which were followed by a few cigarettes, even though we decided last week we weren't buying smokes anymore, because of Peter Jennings, and then a late dinner of bacon cheeseburgers and fries (and, for some reason, a scotch or two) at the Corner Bistro.

• Philadelphians don't believe the Times's sixth-borough crap any more than we do. [Inquirer]
• Because no else seems to have any idea, CBS asks its interns how to save the Evening News. [NYO]
• Officialy, all Timesmen love Judy Miller. Confidentially, not so much. Something for OTR sources to consider: The way you talk about Judy, how far do you think moonlighting E&P newshound Joe Strupp will go to protect your identities? [Salon]
• The Voice calls Newsweek's Fareed Zakaria the pundit world's Backstreet Boy, whatever that means. , egregiously ignoring George Stephanopoulos. [VV]
• A j-school prof wonders, should I tell my students the truth, that the business kind of sucks? Nah, of course not. Where would we be without irrationally earnest j-students? [E&P]

Like our friends at Eater, we too noticed something was a bit funky with Timesman Frank Bruni's double-listed review(s) of Amy Sacco's new trough for the famous, Bette.

Times cookie monster R.W. Apple Jr. is sick and tired of being forced to eat plain old Maine lobsters. So unsubtle! So indelicate! He prefers their "slim, pink, thin-shelled relatives," langoustines.

You already knew she has a better job than you. (OK, than most of you.) Last week you learned that she's also richer than you'll ever be and goes on more extravagant vacations than you do, on which she has much more fun than you ever do. As if you needed another reason to hate New York Times style scribe Alex Kuczynski, here's today's news:

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We're such fucking humanitarians.

Who says it can't be both?

According to yesterday's Times, Philadelphia is the new Williamsburg. And, commute-wise, 2 hours is the new 20 minutes.

But seriously: Lucky her.

Editor & Publisher grand poobah Greg Mitchell previews Michael Wolff's column on Plamegate in the forthcomingnew Vanity Fair — that's the Jennifer Aniston issue, and, no, by the time it hits newsstands there won't be anything in it you haven't already read about —, and he discovers Wolff in full-on conspiracy-theorist mode. [Update: OK, it's been out for a while, and we should leave the house more often.]

Although apparently the last time anything good happened in August was more than a century ago. Stupid month.

• CNN's American Morning moving from street-level studio to CNN newsroom, leaving Midwestern tourists with a mere four street-level morning shows in Midtown to flock to. [NYDN]
• Finally, a prosecutor decides against subpoenaing a Times reporter. [Miami Herald]
• The Wen Ho Lee case against the Times and others, however, continues. And could be much worse for journalists. [Boston Phoenix]
• Rumor has it a Times reporter is skulking around Philadelphia, looking for sources on a "sixth borough" story. Anyone know Jenny 8.'s whereabouts? [Philebrity, third item]
• Now Trump's blogging, too. Is the shark finally jumped? [TechWeb]
• Apparently we're not making sweet love to anyone at Page Six. (We're not? That was all so long ago that at this point, we've forgotten the details.) In other breaking news, it seems we work in our pajamas and like cheap drinks. Who knew? [RS]

Sure the insurgency rages on in Iraq with no solution in sight, yes the price of oil his a new record high today, true no progress is being made to get North Korea to give up its nuclear program, and granted Iran is about to have nukes of its own. But the Times's "Today's Headlines" email over the last week has been using its on-this-day blurb to considerately remind us of all the other shitty stuff that can happen.

But can you watch it free? Otherwise we're sticking with CNN for all our weird, misogynistic, fetish porn.

In today's Times, Stephanie Rosenbloom taps into the cult of female friendship. More specifically, she's tracking the "girl crush" phenomenon: