Earlier today, in Taiwan, the smartphone company HTC held its annual investor's meeting. HTC's stock price is in the toilet. Investors are demanding: hey, how about a free phone?

Paris Hilton did indeed call Barbara Walters collect this weekend to talk about her jail time; on today's "The View," Babs discussed the how the incident has caused a spiritual awakening in the young hotel heiress. It's a powerful story of redemption. And so honest.

As we speak, Paris Hilton is wending her way back to court with a government-provided (and -mandated) escort. Fox News captured photographers on the scene covering her departure from home. Ladies and gentlemen, it's your free press, protecting your right to know.

Steve Dunleavy wins the coin toss against colleague Andrea Peyser for who gets to be predictably outraged over the Paris Hilton release. [NYP]

In case David Carr needs a quick, phone-it-in topic for his Monday "Media Equation" column, he could do worse than to cover the coverage of the predictable outrage over the Paris Hilton release. [NYDN, every other paper in the world]