In your venturesome Friday media column: Jeff Zucker's rumored to have big plans, People StyleWatch is insanely successful, Demand Media's coming to buy your blog, and Mark Whitaker heads to CNN.

CNN has retracted a story that claimed there was an investigation into the decision to put Wikileaker Bradley Manning on suicide watch.

This evening's Piers Morgan Tonight featured megachurch pastor Joel Osteen and his Stepford wife Victoria. When Morgan switched the subject to homosexuality, Osteen—declaring it a "sin" and comparing it to an "addiction"—contradicted and offended on multiple levels.

Republicans and Democrats are both furious at CNN, the only network which will air Rep. Michele Bachmann's Tea Party response to tonight's State of the Union in addition to the official Republican response. But CNN refuses to compromise!

Google's soon-to-be-ex CEO reportedly filmed a pilot for CNN as part of a year-long effort to find a TV job. The only problem: It was really, really bad.

Tonight, Golden Globes host Ricky Gervais gave his first interview since Sunday night's controversial show to Piers Morgan. Defiant as ever, Gervais not only defended his jokes, but even suggested that people were wrong to be offended. Video highlights inside.

CNN's John King apologized on the air yesterday for a guest's use of the term "crosshairs" while describing the Chicago mayor's race. Oh, CNN. You keep playing nanny well after the rest of us have stopped caring.

The night after Oprah Winfrey served as Piers Morgan Tonight's first guest, Howard Stern took to the program to accuse the Queen of Daytime of stealing Phil Donahue's format. Then, Stern called Jay Leno "insane" and "a crook." Watch inside.

Piers Morgan's CNN talk show debuted last night with 2.1 million viewers, compared to a 657,000 average in that time slot last quarter. (Although reviews sucked.) Thanks, Oprah fans! Unfortunately, Piers, it's all going to be downhill from here.

In your should-be-a-holiday Monday media column: WPIX goes minimalist, Ken Auletta takes on AOL, the Comcast-NBCU merger is almost ready to close, and Piers Morgan will have his first and most-watched episode on CNN tonight.

In Wolf Blitzer's CNN Situation Room today—where things are watched very closely—Jack Cafferty filed a report about Sarah Palin's odd post-Arizona shooting speech. What'd we learn? Cafferty hates Palin—he also thinks her shot at the Presidency is over.

The dumbest person on CNN (which is really saying something), Erick Erickson, is mad as hell at Media Matters, who he calls "atheists and twinkie eaters" and "the Westboro Baptist D.C. Branch," because they don't love Jesus Christ. Oh, Jesus.

In your foreboding Tuesday media column: Bloomberg decides to attract some of these "wealthy" readers, Kathleen Parker's reign at CNN looks tenuous, magazine ad revenue rises in 2010, journalism's depressing, and Elaine Lafferty speaks on her Daily Beast-Koch-Jane Mayer story.

On tonight's AC360, Anderson Cooper interviewed Bill Maher about Saturday's deadly Arizona shooting. After Cooper asked him if right-wing politicians/pundits can be blamed for it, Maher came out swinging—and even directly compared Glenn Beck to shooter Jared Loughner.

According to The Wall Street Journal, CNN is considering dumping Parker Spitzer's Kathleen Parker and replacing her. But who could bring the same ability to sit there and not talk? Ashley Dupre? Piers Morgan? Ted Williams? A piece of string?

Piers Morgan has scored Oprah as his first guest when he replaces Larry King on CNN. People might actually watch now.

For two weeks, Anderson Cooper is taking over Larry King's old CNN time slot. Tonight, during a chat with Joy Behar, Phyllis Diller, Kathy Griffin and Joan Rivers, Cooper admitted his love for Oprah Winfrey and OWN's programming. Watch inside.

This is probably not a surprise to people who follow the comings and goings of Alec Baldwin—he's been hinting at it for years—but it may be the first time he's been so publicly direct about his political ambitions.

Bitchy silver fox John Roberts, until recently host of CNN's American Morning, will leave the world of strained objectivity behind for right-wing insanity parlor Fox News, where he'll serve as senior national correspondent. Enjoy clipping Roger Ailes' toenails, new guy!

Are you bored? Try tweeting something mean at Piers Morgan, the British TV personality who is replacing Larry King on CNN. Chances are, he'll start Twitter-beefing with you. Welcome to America's new national pastime.