• David Letterman celebrates his 25th year of being almost as funny as Johnny Carson.

• The New York Times reports a $648 million loss in its fourth quarter earnings; An official spokesperson shrugged and said, "hey, mo' money, mo' problems."

• According to Judith Miller, Scooter Libby told her Valerie Plame was a CIA. agent three times…then dared Miller to "repeat it in front of a mirror on Halloween and see what happened."

• Maria Bartiromo inherits Anderson Cooper's title as the "Paris Hilton of journalism."

• Remember when Graydon Carter threw a temper tantrum over an inconveniently placed scaffolding? Well, how's he going to react to news that nobody wants to buy his crappy $5 million movie?

• We really didn't need a whole article in Slate to tell us why Top Chef is a huge disappointment.

• Time Inc. pledges to take more risks, fire "even more people" over speakphone.