• MTV launching MTV Arabiya after finding twelve square feet of land mass it doesn't already reach.

• Elliot Spitzer snags one last payola payment before exiting the attorney general's office.

• The news networks will get all hot and bothered over Gerald Ford's funeral, but not in the same steamy way they did Ronald Reagan's.

• Former tabloid staffers joined the Dirt writing pool to add that extra bit of gossip rag pizzaz.

• First magazines, now ad agencies are jerking off to anything green.