• Absolute resurrects itself just in time to waste someone else's money. Doesn't the luxe market know it's all online? [WWD]

• Kit Seelye weighs in on the newspaper circulation reports, with little or nothing new to say. [NYT]

• Is Tribune faking a sale of the LAT to placate the Chandler family? How disappointed David Geffen will be. [NYP]

• Reese and Ryan split? Keith Urban heads to rehab? Closing dates laugh in their faces! [WWD]

• Dave Price will continue getting up at the ass crack of dawn for CBS. [TV Week]

• Times columnist Thomas Friedman is rich, which makes him the enemy. Or did we miss the point of Norman Solomon's critique? [HuffPo]

• Barry Diller makes it big by going small. [NYT]