• Jon Fine poo poos Rupert Murdoch's attempts at a business channel.

• Jon Friedman opts for Stephen Colbert and Jon Stewart as Time magazine's Person of the Year. To be fair: Not an original idea.

• Ed Bradley, remembered.

• Ex-P6er Ian Spiegelman is prepping his first screenplay. Fittingly, it's horror.

• Former LAT scribe Anita Busch links Mike Ovitz to Anthony Pellicano, which means the threats and intimidation aren't ending anytime soon for her.

• Collegiate blog IvyGate hasn't decided whether they're for or against the Ivy League. Just that there's plenty more Aleksey Vayners out there.

• Today show senior producer Tom Mazzarelli is named exec producer at Fox's in-development morning show. His farewell party last night, we sadly missed.