Confidential to Arianna Huffington and Tina Brown: get better ghostwriters.

Indonesian Playboy publisher Erwin Arnada, who was sentenced to two years in jail for public indecency, turned himself in to authorities after he was due to surrender in August. All this trouble and the magazine didn't even show boobs.

Sara Vilkomerson, the former culture editor of the New York Observer, has been hired as a senior writer at EW. Staff memo below:

In 1958, future Gonzo journalism king Hunter S. Thompson was just a lowly 21-year-old magazine intern in Manhattan. (Like you!) He sent an unsolicited letter to the editor of the Vancouver Sun, asking for a job. Cocky little bastard.

In your finally Friday media colum: the Katie Couric rumor mill churns, the NYO's departures demographically analyzed, The Printed Blog returns, Newsweek prepares to move, and our price list revealed.

Glenn Beck's going to be taking some time off next week to get some hospital tests done for "problems with feeling in his hands and feet." But he said the real problem could be "spiritual wounds." Wacky explanation video below!

Puffy, halo-haired hypocrite xenophobe Lou Dobbs is absolutely outraged that The Nation would correctly report that he employed illegal immigrants as workers at his various palatial estates. What—do they want Lou Dobbs to start racial profiling?

Philadelphia Inquirer editor Bill Marimow—a Pulitzer Prize-winning reporter who's led the paper since 2006—is being demoted back to reporter by the paper's new owners. The reason? The internet.

In your businesslike Thursday media column: Newsweek's price confirmed, TMZ's celebrity-friendly spinoff, AOL could buy newspapers, and Brian Tierney says goodbye.

Looks like longtime Page Six boss Richard Johnson is leaving Page Six for LA after all. But not to work for the Hollywood Reporter, whose $1 million offer Johnson had to turn down because of his contract with the Post.

MSNBC.com might get renamed, because they don't want to be confused with pinko MSNBC.

In your fiery Wednesday media column: Jay Fielden's Connecticut house is destroyed, Robert Thompson's rent-a-quote business is flourishing, a tale of thoughtful and well-paid journalism gone to hell, and USA Today's amazing foto feat!

Happy birthday, The Daily Beast! By cannily reading the Zeitgeist, Tina Brown's managed to keep it running for two full years with nothing but her wits and untold millions of Barry Diller's money. She's entitled to brag, don't you think?

What would you do if you were in charge of the Los Angeles Times and the Chicago Tribune? Would you offer a waitress $100 to show her breasts? That's what Tribune Company CEO Randy Michaels did. And it's not all.

The Huffington Post's starting a "Divorce" section. Editors: Nora Ephron and Willow Bay. What an...honor.

In your tepid Tuesday media column: James O'Keefe's powers of seduction are harnessed, Les Moonves has regrets, ABC News buyouts, and TONY EIC says adios.

We are gobsmacked and awestruck! Howard Kurtz, the Washington Post's tireless conventional wisdom-spouting media reporter, is leaving the newspaper to join The Daily Beast as Washington Bureau Chief. We never thought we'd see the day.

"Brand is everything," said recently departed failed NBC boss Jeff Zucker. And at long last, MSNBC has found its brand: "Lean Forward." That really says it all, right? "Lean Forward." What?

College newspapers are not totally worthless. They are where young journalists go to learn. About scandal! Angry readers! Outraged parents! Repentant editors! Scared-shitless administrators! And all over some kids who are just making it up as they go! It's great.

Medical marijuana ads are providing much-needed revenue to alt-weeklies across America. Good news financially—and journalistically. What do publishers say? "The joke around here is that it's a budding business." Hahaha. Mercy. Okay, you got us. [NYT]