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· Daily News publisher Mort Zuckerman axes four senior ad managers in a move creatively titled as "voluntary buyout." [NYP]
· Sometimes you get fired from Jane for freelancing too much. And sometimes, they still use your image on subscription inserts as further punishment. [Intelligencer (4th item)]
· Legal Affairs, a quasi-important law (read: yawnish) magazine, disassociates itself from Yale. Could this be indicative of the media distancing itself from blue bloods? Nah. [NYT]
· The New Yorker gets ripped a new punctuational asshole by someone in...Kansas. Oh, how the tables turn. [Sun Herald]

Strapped for cutting-edge story ideas? With only one day left to milk the election angle for maximum creaminess, why not explore cross-political relationships? Look how simple it is to jump on this trendy bandwagon:

We expected this sort of "exclusive" from the Post.
Busts Riding High [NYDN]

Our favoritest heroes ever, the University of Arizona students who pelted scary conservative Ann Coulter with pie during her speech on campus, have finally gotten their Al Pieda organization online. The boys are seeking much-needed donations to help assuage the painful legal fees incurred while defending their right to slam insane twig women with pies.

Magazines are awesome, we know, but there are so damn many of the monthlies that seem intriguing, we can't decide on which pretty cover to read first. Thankfully, we have spanking-new intern Erik on the task of deciphering the shiny features in this month's big editions. After the jump, find out which titles have extra cock-suckage and which feature ample model exposure.

From left to right: Katie Couric as Donald Trump, Al Roker as Oprah Winfrey, Matt Lauer as Paris Hilton, and Ann Curry as Tina Turner. Happy Halloween from the truly frightening media.
Halloween Photos [AP]

It's purely in the pursuit of truth that Page Six insinuates that Presidential candidate John Kerry is connected to Lee Harvey Oswald. Hey, why don't you just say that Kerry straight-up killed JFK? That might move a few more copies of today's issue.
Conspiracy Theory: Kerry 'Tied' To Oswald [Page Six]
Related:
Uh, We Don't See The Error

Does Monica Lewinsky have, like, the plague or something? We're just wondering, since another man has come forward to claim he wouldn't touch Monica with a ten-foot pole. Perry van der Meer, managing editor of Tracks magazine (a publication which, we might add, disappointingly has nothing to do with heroin), has publicly announced that he is NOT—we repeat, NOT—in a relationship with Lewinsky, even though a couple of gossip items suggested otherwise. Poor Monica; who knew getting fucked with a cigar by the President would make you so untouchable? Back to making purses, spinster!
Another Man Denies A Lewinsky Relationship [TSG]

Finally, it all comes out in the wash: the Bill O'Reilly sexual harassment suit has come to an early end, as O'Reilly has settled with plaintiff Andrea Mackris for an undisclosed sum somewhere between $2 and $10 million. That's a big window, but, at any rate, it should cover Mackris' $99k Mastercard debt. And if he hadn't used Mackris for phone sex, he probably would have racked up similar charges with a 1-900 service.

Everyone's got skeletons from the 80s in their closet, even the new kid at the LAT. At least he's got a sense of humor about it, leaving his skeleton lying around on his web page. Join us in celebrating the staggering awesomeosity of the bitchingest mullet ever rocked.

For no apparent reason other than to irritate magazine drones, inadvertent porn star and former Motley Crue drummer Tommy Lee made a special appearance yesterday in the venerable cafeteria conference room of Wenner Media. What followed was an exercise in retardation, according to a reader report:

When Georgette Mosbacher, Republican Chairwench of New York and CEO of Borghese cosmetics, isn't allegedly having her Borghese employees stuff favor bags for RNC parties or forcing them to watch Fox News, she's urging her minions to get to voting. The slant is oh-so-shocking:

This headline isn't actually quoting anyone, so it's another handy-dandy use of scare quote-style detachment. Because, you know, it's not REALLY about politics. She didn't have dinner ready...the bitch had it coming.
Sun-Sentinel
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Best Engimatic Use Of Scare Quotes

More on the effect of these red-hot blog things: it seems that mainstream journalists actually feel "bullied" by web writers. Really? How sad. Then again, we're not sure you're really qualified to be a member of the fearless press if you're threatened by a pajama-clad army of recluses who eat peanut butter straight from the jar and post cat photos on Fridays.
Web Offers Hefty Voice To Critics Of Mainstream Journalists [NYT]

Here it is, in all its disturbing glory: the MTA Centennial poster that has raised concerns over a secret pro-Scientology plot. The poster's artist, Kathy Jakobsen, even has her own Scientology page. And, in case you can't quite see the details of the poster, those itty-bitty people are all slowly handing over money to John Travolta.
L. Ron Strikes Again! [Office Gnome]

Just when you thought the completely annoying and overplayed (yet strangely, frustratingly accurate) buzzword cult of The Metrosexual was a but a distant memory, some jackass decides that metrosexual men are more effective in the workplace:

Has the LAT suddenly started caring about Hollywood? They've signed up Time (and, for like, fifteen seconds, Entertainment Weekly) columnist/VH1 talking head Joel Stein to write about this thing called "the entertainment industry" that infests much of the paper's subscriber area. Editorial editor Michael Kinsley explains his interest in owning The Business like a Sony exec's indentured servant:

Purely coincidental, we're sure.
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The "blogosphere" just keeps sprouting the craziest little things. And these "bloggers" everyone keeps talking about have the most remarkable insight. Take, for instance, the notion that magazine writers have "a face for magazine writing." Is that better or worse than a face made for radio? We're trying to keep track of our ugly people.
What Do EW's Writers Look Like? SCARY! [Reviewing Entertainment Weekly]