Tainted milk is so last season. The latest Chinese product recall is a magazine. After a GQ story about spoiled twenty-somethings drew lawsuits and questions about journalistic ethics, the mag yanked issues from the shelves. Business Insider explains why.

Last night, Wikileaks—which is not a classic professional media organization!—got one of the biggest scoops of the year with its trove of documents on the Afghanistan war. The day-later meta-media insta-reaction: "That's not such a scoop, meh."

In your positive Monday media column: Richard Desmond buys a TV network, HuffPo personifies the mysterious blog world, Mitch Albom is celebrated for some reason, media job moves are afoot, and Kathie Lee and Hoda are still there.

Tribune Co. is a once-proud media company that's been bankrupted by an arrogant billionaire and a gang of former radio executives whose only skill is writing comical memos. Their new plan to save Tribune: TV news with no pesky humans.

A wealthy scion of an American dynasty is using his media knowledge and Hollywood connections to lobby power players to insert subtle liberal messages into movies and TV shows by manipulating their storylines. This is not propaganda, apparently.

More changes at Condé Nast: The company reports it's splitting the CEO job into two.

In your forthright Thursday media column: Martin Bashir heads to MSNBC, the WSJ says its reporter was wrongly arrested in Chicago, the NYT Co's second quarter earnings, and an angry rant from a retiring sportswriter.

Web empress Arianna Huffington is moving from Los Angeles to New York, multiple sources tell us, which means the globetrotting boss will finally be living in the same city as the editorial headquarters of her Huffington Post. Brace yourselves, underlings.

WSJ reporter Douglas Belkin was arrested while covering the Blagojevich trial today. Don't touch security!

After getting a ton of bad publicity for canceling Fresh Air last week, Mississippi Public Broadcasting follows it up today by firing a reporter who leaked a memo about the show's cancellation. The journalism instinct, it's strong there. [via Romenesko]

In your balmy Wednesday media column: Tucker Carlson desperately needs ideas, a whole sports department walks out, David Remnick is a modest mouse, Eliot Spitzer is paid more than he's worth, and Keith Kelly's prediction finally comes true.

Last month, Gerald Marzorati stepped down as editor of the New York Times Magazine after seven years. Today, John Koblin dissects the reasons for Marzorati's somewhat abrupt departure. There seems to be something...between the lines, here.

In your tricky Tuesday media column: UK newspaper readers are cheap (just like us), Hugh Hefner's perch atop Playboy is safe, insta-analysis of the fallout of Martin Dunn's departure from the NYDN, and staff moves at Forbes and the NYT.

Multiple sources tell us that New York Daily News editor Martin Dunn is stepping down. The newsroom was just notified. He's citing "family reasons" for his departure. Dunn's departure memo, after the jump. [Updated below].

Sumner Redstone, the octogenarian boss of Viacom and CBS, would make a good mafia boss, as well. The Daily Beast's Peter Lauria published an embarrassing story about Redstone, and got the following unbelievable voicemail, demanding he reveal his source.

September issues are absolutely the thing for fashion magazines—a few short years ago, they were all competing to see whose issue could outweigh a watermelon. The last couple of years? Not so great. This year? Well...better, at least.

British author Alan Shadrake was released on bail in Singapore today and his passport is being held over government worries about his new book, Once a Jolly Hangman: Singapore Justice in the Dock, which details the country's death penalty.

California authorities have launched an investigation into claims that Goldline International — the favorite investment arm of Glenn Beck and Mike Huckabee — is scamming people into buying coins and is sending them "something different from what they had ordered."

"As we go to press… we still haven't gotten our interview [with Linday Lohan]," Complex's August/September issue opines. What follows is the journalistic equivalent of battered wife syndrome, the magazine making excuses for the starlet who blew them off.

The NY Daily News is moving downtown. Congrats! Their current place is not so fancy.