• Please remember to check out the Jill Carroll story parts 1 - 795. [E&P]

• We're sure everyone in Park Slope is madly in love with this dude right here. [Curbed]

• At the Lindsay Lohan tattoo parlor, you can have an ever-lasting reminder to breathe, take a pregnancy test, or do some bumps, tattooed right onto on your wrist. Priceless. [Sun]

• Hilary Duff is getting pushed out of work by "real" people. How awful for her. Poor fake person. [The Awful Truth]

• We totally missed this story about Nicole Richie puking all over herself. Well, she did ingest all those tequila shot calories. There really was no other option. [NYO]

• Good Morning America producer John Green is suspended for his two "politically charged" e-mails. Remember, in real news media, opinions are not allowed. [Media Mob]

• Katie Couric's move from Today has yet to happen, but its potential effects are already rocking the entire news world out of orbit. [LAT]

• Who could replace Glenda Bailey should Harper's Bazaar be on the hunt? Atoosa Rubenstein … obviously! Two Atoosa mentions in one day? We must have been good last week. [WWD]

• Oh, give us a break — Budget Living staffers are not devastated. (Those kids would use any excuse to party.) The bigger news? Sarah Gray Miller joins In Style — former home of her post-BL replacement Angela Matusik. [NYT]

• Jill Carroll returns to Boston, where she will be healing. (Meaning she'll be catching the Red Socks and kicking back with a Sam Adams.) [E&P]

After 82 days in captivity, American journalist Jill Carroll, was released by her abductor and dropped off at Sunni Arab political offices this morning. Her friends at the Washington Post were the first reporters to be contacted. (Soak it up folks — after today we will all forget about her survival and start fighting over who gets the first interview.)

"I was never hurt, ever hit," she told a Washington Post reporter. "I was kept in a safe place and treated very well." Carroll, 28, a freelance reporter working for the Christian Science Monitor, arrived safely at the party headquarters just after 1 p.m.

So far we know that she has spoken with her father and is being taken care of by Islamic political leaders. After her kidnapping in western Baghdad on January 7, members of her family along with the journalism community lobbied diligently for her release. Videos released from Iraq on January 17 and February 9, in which Carroll asked her supporters to do whatever was necessary to gain her release.

The story aired on Good Morning America this morning, where Charlie Gibson pointed out that this was a release, not a rescue, but as far as we know, none of her captors' demands for money or the release of female Iraqis were met.

Carroll knew little about who was holding her captive, but said she was allowed to watch TV once and was taken for a shower. No TV for 82 days? Torturous.

Journalist Jill Carroll Released in Iraq [Jonathan Finer and Ellen Knickmeyer, Washington Post]

Even we thought it might be hard to take on Jon Friedman's column today, given its emotional twinge as Jon-Jon effuses on journalists in the war zone, from Christian Science Monitor scribe and current hostage Jill Carroll to Bob Woodruff and Doug Vogt, whose roadside IED attack have left them both hospitalized.

But Friedman – quickly gaining notoriety around Jossip HQ as "that guy who won't participate in our talking head email polling" – has managed to accomplish something we never expected: prove us wrong.

You see, we can take on his column today! Begins Friedman:

I wonder if it's time for the media to reject the whims of hostage-takers in Iraq and elsewhere, and decide not to air terrorists' news footage.

On Monday afternoon, MSNBC showed a brief, heartbreaking image: a television clip of Jill Carroll, the American freelance journalist who had been taken hostage in Iraq on Jan. 7.

The riveting shots, made available by al-Jazeera, showed the 28-year-old Carroll clad in a white head scarf. We saw the stricken, agonized expression on her face as she spoke. The footage lasted less than a minute — not quite the time it takes to air a Coke or Pepsi commercial. Still, the pictures provided such an indelible portrait of one courageous woman's fear that it will be a long time before I can get them out of my mind.

You see, even we aren't using something as gravely solemn as Carroll's hostage situation to tip off the likes of McCann-Erickson and FCB Worldwide on how to sell more soda. Just get a white female with tears in her eyes and a plea for help and – bam! – they could probably convince consumers New Coke Is It! in a mere 30-second spot.

How the media can help Jill Carroll [Jon Friedman, Marketwatch]

• Don't miss Tom Wolfe and Pete Hamil debate James Frey-isms at the 92nd st. Y tonight. [Page Six]

• What's more dangerous: a Chinatown bus war or a Latino mag war? [NYP]

• Jack Shafer takes on Ted Koppel the New York Times columnist. His conclusion: while Koppel's column is pretty lame-ass, the bigger question would be, "wtf was NYT thinking?" [Slate]

• The Russians claim to have launched the Frey bomb first. Somebody better buy the movie rights now — it's another media Cold War. [Page Six]

• In light of the fact that Jill Carroll is still missing (though thankfully alive) we hope David changes his mind about sending us all to Baghdad to report on those MSNBC bloggers. [CSM]

• Ok, so the publisher of Yoga Journal isn't the most glamorous job ever, but there were probably a lot of ex-Time Inc-ers in line for the job Bill Harper snagged. [Media Week]

• Harper's Bazaar loses 1/3 of it's editor in chief staff. [WWD]

• Google, wiretap, Myspace. We're moving to France where privacy is sacred. Right after we get those damn curtains up. [NYP]

• We don't have much, but should such a thing exist, we would like to donate $15 to the Free Jill Carroll fund. [Salon]

• You've got your low-fat milk and chocolate taken care of, but, how does your media diet look? We recommend less Washington Post and more Jossip. [Poynter]

• The mass exodus of old anchors to NPR is affecting … nobody. Newscasters not wanting to cover politics? Hellooo, we have Jon Stewart. [WSJ]