· Oh, silly William Safire, always using obscure journalistic terms and acting like we should know what the hell he's talking about. [Slate]
· It's not just Long Island dailies that have been fluffing their circulation figures; newspaper circulation has been on the decline since 1987 and everyone's trying to cover. [WaPo]
· Business Week's retiring EIC Stephen Shepard is appointed as the first dean of City University's Graduate School of Journalism; BW managing editor Mark Morrison leads the pack of Shepard's possible successors. [NYDN]