• Wal-Mart is in trouble for taping New York Times reporter's phone calls. 'Yo, that's fucked up!' says the NSA.

• Meanwhile, advertisers, Norman Mailer not big fans of New York Times' book reviews.

• Ron Burkle banks $200 million; Jared Paul Stern wishes he could go back in time and extort him for a whole lot more.

• New Nightly News exec producer Alex Wallace started out working for CBS and NBC. Looks like she finally backed the right horse.

• "Seriously, Brian Williams' trip to Iraq isn't a ratings stunt. He just really, really, wanted to go," says NBC.

• Boston Globe sportswriter suspended for plagiarism; experts say this reporter's "a few yards short of a touchdown."

NBC sure doesn't waste any time. After losing to ABC in the ratings two weeks straight, they canned their exec producer, John Reiss, (but claimed that had nothing to do with the ratings). Less than a week later, NBC has already named Alex Wallace as Reiss' official replacement, as well as shipped anchor Brian Williams out to Iraq, (again, not for ratings).

And it's a good thing NBC could care less about the ratings deficit, considering they lost February Sweeps to ABC for the first time in over ten years. In fact, we haven't seen a network care this little about the news ratings since, well, CBS.