This video explains a lot.

Struggling Alaskan newspapers have come up with a new revenue source that could well become a model for the whole industry: Being paid restitution by a Hollywood studio that used your paper's name without permission to advertise an alien movie.

Congrats to sjbricknall for guessing today's Freeze Frame. The correct answer is after the jump!

It's been months since we outed some media deadbeats. Having trouble getting paid? Email me.

Peoples is peoples so why should it be that this conversation goes along so awkwardly?

We have confirmation from the set of Levi's Playgirl shoot that he has just posed naked with a hockey stick: "His ass is as smooth as a Sade song." Mark your calendars. This is officially Levi Johnston's Penis Appreciation Day.

Who thought crying for 45 minutes straight would be so fun? Well, try watching Glee, which will open up a can of emotional mayhem on you and then take a glitter shit on your heart. And you'll love it.

• John King will be replacing Lou Dobbs at 7pm on CNN. [WP, NYT]
• CNN execs had been looking to part ways with Dobbs for many months now, although CNN president Jon Klein is denying that all the anti-Dobbs fervor had anything to do with his leaving. Meanwhile, Dobbs' departure is expected to leave up to 30 people without jobs. [TDB, NYT, AP]
• Dobbs' first post-CNN interview will be with Bill O'Reilly. Naturally. [DF]
• Iconix, the apparel company that owns Candie's, Badgley Mischka, and Rocawear, among other brands, is in talks to buy Playboy Enterprises. [BN]
• Bloomberg LP is ducking out of paying severance to BW staffers. [AdAge]
• A dozen staffers were laid off at Newsweek today. [Gawker]
• Martin Scorsese will receive the DeMille award at the Golden Globes. [LAT]
• Katie Couric is assembling media power lists now, apparently. [Forbes]

Fancy strollermaker Maclaren just issued its stroller recall this week, but it's known its products could chop off your baby's fingers for at least five years now. Why does Maclaren want Park Slope's streets littered with tiny digits? [NYP]

The brilliant man that gave us Jones' Good Ass BBQ & Foot Massage and Jones' Big Ass Truck Rental now brings us Jones' Cheap Ass Prepaid Legal and Daycare Academy.

Britons are the ugliest people in the world, at least according to the stupid dating website BeautifulPeople.com. (Not that we necessarily disagree, of course.) [Reuters, Telegraph]

In a decade since the launch of Titanic, the eyes of humanity have focused on the James Cameron laboratory wondering what leap forward would emerge, what gifts he would bestow on our species?

If a Googler can pose in Vogue and Glamour, and if Justin Timberlake's playing a Facebook exec, surely London tech geeks can strip off their clothes for a sexy calendar. It'll sell furiously. Or at least, uh, get tweeted furiously.

Was the this decade really as bad as this epic seven minute recap would lead you to believe?

The Way We Live Now: With total disregard for everything, except our own selfish desire for precious money. You're hurting your families. You're falling behind the rest of the world, wasting time gambling and tinkering. What's wrong with you?

Lipdubs are the scourge of internet video, churned out by desperate would-be fameballers. But staff from Google's San Francisco office apparently can't resist making music videos, either. What workplace horrors made them turn to a sideline in Miley Cyrus impersonation?

No, he does not. But CNN will replace the departing Lou Dobbs with mild-mannered touchscreen jockey John King, doubling-down on the admirable straight-news strategy that has catapulted it to the bottom of the cable news race.

These two cute girls get an A for Effort in our book but man does that look like that fall hurt.

Manhattan's very first Costco opened its doors this morning. Located on 116th Street off the FDR—and encompassing 105,000-square-feet—it's a slice of the suburbs in the middle of the city. Oh, and the bargains to be had: three pounds of almonds for $9.69; a five-liter jug of olive oil for $19.99; 40-pound bags of dog food for $23.39! Although when you factor in the cost of renting a storage unit—you won't be able to keep all that crap in your tiny Manhattan apartment, will you?—you can continue to buy your groceries at your local deli for twice the price and you'll still come out even in the end. [NYP]

explaining how she balances being a beauty queen and a crusader for the Lord, in an interview with Christianity Today.