· All the juicy parts of the Joe Eszterhas book picked out for you so you needn't get the clap by touching it yourself. [Bryan Curtis]
· NY Daily News staffers get 1% yearly pay increase over the last 3 years. [Keith Kelly]
· Newspaper publisher Conrad Black: not just a sleazebag, more like a common crook. [NYO]
· An article about Slate so incredibly endlessly long that I refuse to summarize it for you. (Okay, editor Jacob Weisberg semi-hilariously says "Slate is not a place to go to find out what s happening. It s a place to go when you already know what s happening" and Michael Wolff says it's "media for media," which is a bizarre criticism coming from the navel-gazer himself. Shit, I promised I wouldn't mention Wolff's name all week. Devil!) [Nina Shapiro]