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Jiblets: Vaughniston Needs the Press Now More Than Ever

• If a guy with Windows Movie Maker and access to Google Images can lay down funnier lines than Best Week Ever, maybe that United Talent Agency web initiative has some feet. [Jackson Blue]

• Celeb press corp tires of Jennifer Aniston and Vince Vaughn relationship charades. This blog tires of (but will continue reporting on) meta coverage thereof. [Radar]

• Porn empresario Michael Lucas throws down with New York magazine. [Queerty]

• Comely Whipple's World host George Whipple lets his pocket protector come loose on Friday nights. [Radar]

Ken Sunshine pours the haterade on bloggers. That's "bloggers," code word for "anyone who hates on my clients." [FBNY]

New Republic associate editor Spencer Ackerman becomes the first person fired from the title since Stephen Glass, in '98. Spencer's crime? Hating on TNR on a blog. Kids these days. [NYO]

• Former Sarah Gray Miller Budget Living cohort Alex Bhattacharji becomes Daniel Peres' newest bottom at Details. [NYO]

Media Blitz: Kent Brownridge isn't leaving Jann Wenner just yet

• Ex-Budget Living duo Sarah Gray Miller and Alex Bhattacharji have wrapped things up at Look, the Entertainment Weekly one-off (for now) that hit subscribers and newsstands this week. Depending on the numbers, there might just be another entertainment mag yet. [WWD]

Kent Brownridge might be quitting Wenner Media on a full-time business, but he's still expected to be in the office as often as two days a week. Someone has to check Jann Wenner's oil. [NYP]

• FCC boss Kevin Martin wants Time Warner and Comcast to help crack down on naughty programming so the dial can be one big family-friendly Disney channel. [LAT]

• The five media stories you won't read in 2006, because they just won't happen. In convenient listicle format. [Business Week]

• Sure, the U.S. military formed the Baghdad Press Club, but that doesn't mean members have to write skewed stories. [USA Today]

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