• Ted Koppel is finally on the way out at Nightline, with ABC News brass looking to replace him with either Cynthia McFadden, Terry Moran and (holy shit) Michael Jackson's favorite interviewer Martin Bashir.

• At the 26th Annual News & Documentary Emmy Awards, onlookers were treated to CNN interviewing their very own Christiane Amanpour about – what else? – reporting!

• Entertainment mogul David Geffen is truly serious about buying the Los Angeles Times, but maybe he's looking more toward spin control than a new playing. After all, the LAT did hound him on DreamWorks SKG's being a flop and his refusal to allow public access next to his Malibu pad.

• Tom Wolfe doesn't need the name of his book I Am Charlotte Simmons to actually be on the book to sell copies. Just his name – in big-ass, bold letters – will do.

• Google is facing its latest lawsuit from book writers, who claim the search giant's plans to scan and create a database of entire libraries amounted to "massive copyright infringement," while the Mountain View firm says its plans to wrap the books' contests in ads constitutes "fair use."

• At yesterday's memorial service, Peter Jennings was remembered as a "devoted father, hard-driving journalist and a man who befriended homeless people," but there was no mention he practically was a definitive version of How To Lose Friends And Alienate People.

• If you were lucky enough to give the Wall Street Journal your business rather than home address, you might've been lucky enough to miss their new Weekend Edition.