• Do you really need a headline – or us? – to tell you that fewer people are reading newspapers? Circulation has dropped again as TimesSelect secretly sheds a tear. [AP]

• For once we're not complaining about such a gigundo New York magazine article. After all, it probably does take nearly 7,000 words to explain all the ways to improve the Village Voice. [New York]

• Judith Miller will not make her expected return to the newsroom this week since neither she nor Arthur Sulzberger Jr. & Co. are willing to budge in their negotiations. Judy wants an op-ed piece to rebut criticism while execs would rather let Maureen Dowd's kvetching stand untarnished. [NYO]

• Just because America is made up of one part obese people and two parts moderately fat folk doesn't mean fitness magazines are at death's door. In fact, some of them are reporting increased circs. [Mediaweek]

• Leave it to Simon Dumenco to rain on AOL's parade. A comeback for the Internet dinosaur? Maybe, but it'll look like Martha Stewart's. [AdAge]

• Martha Stewart's new motto: "Can't nobody hold me down, oh no, I got to keep on movin'." [Fortune]