Upsetting: A tipster tells us that the bedridden New York Daily News' longtime photo editor Mike Lipack got word that he was being fired from the NYDN "after stepping on [Editor-In-Chief] Martin Dunn's dick one too many times." Eegh. Updated!

In your well-regarded Tuesday media column: A Washington Times editor reaches his breaking point, the NY Daily News makes a bizarre investment, Lou Dobbs has a terrifying new career option, and magazines are now pointless.

Damn, New York Post. You rocked it with today's headline, which gets placed in the epic "STAB BABY" headline file. But why so serious? Who're they talking about? Pinch Sulzberger? Col Allen? Jon Gosselin? Make guesses, place your bets! Ready?

Everybody's having fun with Robert Mormando, the gay mafia hitman the world learned about today. It's like The Sopranos! Except he only meant to come out in front of the judge, not a bunch of newspaper reporters.

Tipsters report: the NY Daily News gossip' team's down one, as Laura Schreffler's out. Is the NYDN gossip desk growing rust? We know one person who turned the gig down. Update: Ben Widdicombe's on the move: TMZ!

responding to a New York Times reporter asking about the hooker-loving former governor's first class at the City College of New York, overheard by a New York Daily News reporter also trying to gather quotes.

Everyone loves the story of the old people who would rather eat chicken marsala than listen to Congressman Anthony Weiner try to convince them that the government will not take over their Medicare

Last December, when Bernie Madoff's victim list was made public, we learned about Daily News publisher Mort Zuckerman's "significant exposure" to the swindler's Ponzi scheme, about $30-million in "significant exposure" to be exact. Now the pain is really setting in.

Reports coming from inside the building have been trickling in our tipline throughout the day: Jennifer Aniston's shooting her new movie at the New York Daily News offices. So, what's the Daily News' bring-a-movie-star-to-work day like? We have photographic evidence.

The New York Daily News tried to say it broke the news of Farrah Fawcett's death online before it even happened. Time stamp proof:

The temporary replacement this week for recently laid-off Daily News gossip writer Sean Evans: Sarah Polonsky, who was once canned by Page Six for being a freebie-mongering "swag hag." And Jared Paul Stern is still available, hey! [CityFile]

Wonderful news: Hiram Monserrate is a Democrat again! The New York state Senator who famously glassed his girlfriend and whose term cannot end soon enough switched back to caucusing with his party and doomed the Senate to (yet more) gridlock.

Nikki Finke's got it on good authority that Roger Friedman's gonna sue Fox for his firing over watching a leaked copy of Wolverine. And he's talking about it in the (Fox/NY Post competitor) Daily News tomorrow. [DHD]

Here are the first five paragraphs (don't worry, they are are short, and wonderful) of today's lead editorial in the New York Daily News, "Beneath contempt: Billionaire Tom Golisano is the worst of a vile crew in the Albany cesspool":

Early this morning, at about 5AM, we were browsing through today's edition of the New York Times when we ran across David Carr's media column. Something about it struck us viscerally, so much so that we were unable to process it at the time and write anything about it.

In a much anticipated episode of the O'Reilly Factor, Bill O'Reilly addressed the murder of George Tiller, whom he frequently referred to as "Tiller the Baby Killer," decrying the use of violence for political purposes and lashing out at those on the "far left" who dare to criticize him.

It's always funny when the New York Post and the New York Daily News replicate each other in some way because they hate each other with the intensity of a million white-hot suns, so you just know somebody got bitched out at both papers after what happened on Sunday.

Mort Zuckerman thinks letting newspapers run bingo games will save journalism. Let's see if his own newspaper is competent enough to run promotional games!

Will Barack Obama appoint Hillary Clinton to the Supreme Court?

[A wonderful Air Force One photo op that doesn't scare anyone. Via, submitted for New York Daily News' Photoshop contest]