· Martha Stewart Living and Abercrombie & Fitch Quarterly gave birth to today's glut of shopping mags — but it's not their fault, really. (Yeah, that's what Oppenheimer said about the Manhattan Project.) [Simon Dumenco]
· Bauer Publishing, home of In Touch Weekly, will bring out Life and & Style Weekly in November. Basically, the mag will focus on shilling celebrity product lines. (May we suggest a feature on those chairs that singer/poetess Jewel has been whittling on her porch in her spare time between careers?) [Paul Colford]
· Has Al Gore purchased the Newsworld International cable channel? Find out at noon today... [Wonkette]
· New six-month newspaper circulation numbers released: all major New York papers have an increase in circulation. That must mean they are better and more enjoyable! [Jacques Steinberg]