A rare bit of (mostly) good news for the media: libel lawsuits in America have nearly disappeared. Newspapers are now getting their revenge, by suing the entire blogosphere unto ruination (they hope!).

When bros talk about bros icing bros, they're like, "Bro, you got fucking iced." But when the New York Times talks about bros icing bros, it's like "Drinking Game Poses Query, Who's 'Icing' Whom?" Ha, "Whom?" That's an icing, bro.

In your standoffish Tuesday media column: Robert Thomson is talking trash nonstop, Michael Isikoff's liberal bias exposed, CNN is giving up on news, Good Morning America goes into the magic business, and shameless Onion regurgitation of the day.

The diversity-embracing New York Post posted a story this morning about the arrest of a suspect in connection with a Central Park sex attack last week. Already, the Post's peerless commenters have unearthed three separate deplorable angles.

Fox News will do anything to win Helen Thomas' front-row White House press room seat.

In your Newsweeky Monday media column: the latest on the secret rumored alleged unknown bidders for Newsweek, suggestions for Newsweek's future success, Michael Isikoff leaves Newsweek, and Tim Cahill's having a rough time, Newsweek notwithstanding.

This is really not the way Helen Thomas deserves to go out, mired in a half-ass scandal. Nevertheless, it is how she is going out. Hearst just announced that the 89 year-old White House correspondent is retiring. Memo below.

The Journal has responded to the cease-and-desist it received from the Times earlier this week.

New York Post media man Keith Kelly crunches the numbers for the American version of British tabloid OK!. It's lost $175.7 million in four years of existence. That's $787,000 an issue. Even the ! in the title is sad.

The New York Times and the Wall Street Journal are locked in a mortal newspaper war that will determine the future of American journalism, etc, etc. Haha, but seriously they are arguing over marketing slogans, now.

In your disputatious Thursday media column: M.I.A. wins an editor's note on her New York Times profile, Le Monde needs a rich friend, two high-profile retirements, and Nate Silver is moving up in the world.

Remember that kooky video last week of the hospital PR man who simply would not stop touching a local news reporter, no matter what? Is there anyone in the world who thought that flack was good? Oh yes—there is.

The bids are in for Newsweek! Who wants to be the next owner of this classic American magazine, now that the Washington Post Co. has acknowledged it will never make a penny? A diverse group of...interesting people.

In your audacious Wednesday media column: Newsweek bid day is here, David Remnick demands cash up front, The Big Lead creates a millionaire, Skiing Magazine eases away from print, and the original Jezebel is leaving.

A deal's reportedly in place for incompetent NBC Universal boss Jeff Zucker to leave the company "a couple of months" after Comcast closes its acquisition. Then he can become another vacuous, wealthy politician. The personification of the American Dream! [NYP]

M.I.A. was so pissed about her New York Times Magazine profile that she tweeted writer Lynn Hirschberg's phone number and then made a diss track about her. What a baby, right? Well. She had a good reason to be mad.

Ed Murrieta, former Tacoma News Tribune restaurant critic, is now "one of 6 million Americans whose sole source of income is food stamps." There but for the grace of god goes...well, fair chance you're already there. [Seattle Times/ Romenesko]

CNN.com accidentally posted the private email address of newly-separated Al and Tipper Gore earlier today. Alex Weprin over at WebNewser did a little digging into how the gaffe occurred:

In your bold Tuesday media column: female anchors walk out at Al-Jazeera, a slew of media job changes, Newsweek's sale draws closer, Graydon Carter's newest fancy, and happy birthday CNN.

George Rush and Joanna Molloy published their final gossip column in the New York Daily News yesterday following a 15-year run. Ben Widdicombe, a Rush & Molloy protégé and former Daily News gossip columnist himself, looks back.