• If you count Web visitors, newspaper circulation is doing just fine. Harper's circulation, meanwhile, still isn't. [E&P]

• Last night's Nightline – the first sans Ted Koppel – was live, Live, LIVE. [TVNewser]

• Turns out all those reports of gang rape, shooting at helicopters and carjackings during the Hurricane Katrina relief effort were peddled by none other than the Associated Press and other news outlets, even though there was nary a scent of confirmation. But rest assured, the blacks were still "looting" while the whites were "finding." [Reason]

• Yes, we get it: There's no such thing as off the record, especially in a room packed with journos. [Slate]

• Remember that obnoxious bar code-reading CueCat device? Yeah, it's back — but only in Germany, thankfully. [Wired]