Former New York Daily News gossip duo Rush & Molloy are suing MTV for stealing gossip peon Shallon Lester and putting her in an inane reality show. That silly idea was theirs first!

Martha Nelson is the new editorial director at Time Inc., the second-highest position in the company.

In your crisp Thursday media column: success at the WSJ, Moe on DC, the government is very concerned about journalism, the Today Show is unafraid, and Vice is officially a part of the MTV generation.

Hearst is reportedly close to a deal to buy Hachette Filipacchi Media, publisher of Elle and Woman's Day, in a deal that would make Hearst easily the dominant publisher of American female-centric media.

Barry Diller—a man who seemed positioned to reign opulently over his IAC media empire for years to come—announced this morning that he's stepping down as CEO of IAC.

The Post's totally superfluous Page Six Magazine comes out tomorrow with a cover story about Madonna's former boytoy Jesus Luz. The problem is no one wants to hear him talk. And when he does, he sounds like a fool.

In your drenched Wednesday media column: the NYT pay wall draws near, a royal wedding can't sell magazines any more, Anderson Cooper reams an old Texas man, James Hibberd moves to EW, and Romenesko is all weird now.

A while back, we filed a Freedom of Information Law request looking for e-mails between New York Gov. David Paterson's flacks and a bunch of reporters. The governor's office tried hard to keep them secret, but we finally got them.

Utterly unwatched CNN newsgimmick show Parker Spitzer is getting some much-needed publicity today, in the form of a rumored threat by cohost Kathleen Parker to leave the show. Oh no, they wouldn't want to lose Kathleen Parker, ha ha.

Is this Maureen Dowd comic book awesome (superhero journalist!) or offensive (she's, uh, naked)? I'm leaning toward awesome.

Who would buy MySpace? When News Corp. bought the social network for $580 million five years ago, it was on top; now MySpace trails Facebook and isn't trying to catch up. And News Corp is finally talking about selling.

In your tremulous Tuesday media column: Richard Branson strikes the iPad, a college newspaper editor burns out, the Washington Post gets shut down, and in-house news.

How did Vogue boss of bosses Anna Wintour spend her Thanksgiving? In Shanghai, being thankful that she's so famous that a tipster sent us video of her all the way from China.

Attorney General Eric Holder says the criminal investigation into Wikileaks founder Julian Assange is more than just "saber-rattling," and Justice Department officials are claiming he violated the Espionage Act. If that's true, isn't the New York Times guilty as well?

Chaos in morning TV-Land! CBS is tossing out Early Show co-anchors Harry Smith and Maggie Rodriguez, and weatherman Dave Price. Chris Wragge and Erica Hill will take over the anchor spots. Cruel world! And Merry Christmas, CBS viewers! [TVNewser]

Doomed Sen. Joe Lieberman, after briefly praising CNN in a Don Imus interview today, quickly added, "But of course, really, Fox Business is my favorite and Fox generally, anything Rupert Murdoch owns." Jesus, even Murdoch doesn't like everything he owns.

In your merry Monday media column: Salon's staff memo on today's news, Virginia Heffernan's dream comes true, The Daily eschews Republicinsanity, WSJ. vs. T magazine, and David Carr feels the love.

An inside tipster tells us "all [New York Times] blogs have been down, meaning no internal access, for at least 90 minutes and counting." My god, it seems to be true! Save us, Nate Silver! Save us, David Pogue!

For well over a decade, Salon.com has tried to solve the puzzle of how to put out a daily online-only magazine featuring quality writing and journalism without losing money. They've failed. We have just one decent idea for their survival.

The amorphous "Magazine Industry" continues its Quixotic—nay, nonsensical quest to save itself from decline by placing ads that urge people to read magazines into magazines, which the people in question are, necessarily, already reading.