It took less than two months after taking the reigns of Women's Health for Dave Zinczenko, the Men's Health editor and new editorial director of Rodale's group, to get rid of the lady mag's founding editor Tina Johnson. She helped launch the spin-off and steer it toward its current standing, as a well-read and well-regarded book in its category, and Zinczenko's ousting her this week will surely disturb a few of Johnson's followers. No matter, it's likely going to follow with some other staff shake ups.

Officially, Johnson left the magazine voluntarily. But either way, her departure isn't the only revolution at the mag:

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… of Women's Health at least. The Rodale SVP and Men's Health chief has been named editorial director of the lady mag. Which totes means we're going to see him start working out with fit girls now, yes?

Rodale totally wants you to snap them up! Like, really bad. Or, at the very least, they want your deep pockets to come on board and drop a load of cash all over a messy copy of Men's Health. Except you're going to have to submit yourself for a full cavity search — Rodale has some strict conditions when it comes to getting in bed.

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There's nothing sexy about Rodale, the Emmaus, Pa.-based publisher that keeps Dave Zinczenko button-down shirt supply in good order. That South Beach Diet franchise didn't help. But they're trying, we'll give them that. So much so that they're hoping JP Morgan will find the debt-free publisher a "strategic partner" to help them expand. Only criteria? Lots of cash, which is why U2 singer Bono's Elevation Partners is said to be an option. Bono already bought a huge chunk of Forbes; why not make a old-people-niche move and pick up Prevention?

• Jack Shafer speaks from the mount, gives maybe-plagiarizing novelist Ian McEwan a pass.

• Louise MacBain continues snapping up art properties, ignoring her art magazines.

• Rodale takes a groundbreaking step to give a shit about the Internet.

• InStyle begins to look like a herd at the feeding trough.

• NBC received 4,000 emails about its single sponsorship stunt. Single sponsor Philips soaks up the PR.

• Nick Denton comes off every bit as smarmy in his Guardian profile as he does at his loft parties.

• Anna Wintour leads the charges in figuring out what to do with skinny bitches banned from runways.

Today on CNN's free in flight videos, you have your choice of entertainment. 1) Strippers being stabbed to death 2) Little girls getting their hands chopped off, and 3) Doctors selling off body parts.

In other news, the pot of coffee we drank this morning is really helping our body process the crappy wine Rodale was serving last night.

Watch Free [CNN]

When the former vice president asks for your presence at the Museum of Natural History to celebrate his book's release, you go — if only to excuse yourself from hanging out with a bunch of Internerds. So last night we hit up Al Gore's An Inconvenient Truth book party, where publisher Rodale had gathered a who's who list of industry powerhouses. None of which we recognized or cared to talk to, but we're certain they were among us.

Without a single bottle of bubbly available, we settled on white wine as we listened to Gore, standing beneath the precariously positioned giant blue whale, wax environmental for 10 minutes. No mention of inventing the Internet, which automatically bumped his speech up to a B- at least. Though his closing comments – "It's a spiritual crisis [...] I'm an optimist because I believe that we are capable of rising to solve this crisis and making a better world" – almost let us forgive the beads of sweat rolling off his face when we shook hands and chatted with him afterward.

Since we weren't about to waste our precious moments with Mr. VP showering him with praise – especially when we hadn't seen the movie nor read the book – we cut right to the chase: Was he sad to see Katie Couric leave the Today show? "I'm just glad she got a promotion!" he boomed. Okay, okay, we did discuss more than Ms. Couric's lower-half, but when Keith Olbermann finally freed himself from Gore's grip – "he paved a path to introduce himself," Keith lamented – we knew we had some questions for TV's most esteemed Counter-Downer.

The rest of our evening, after the jump.

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Last night we attended Rodale's book party for Al Gore (full review TK) in hopes of finding Anderson Cooper and asking if he does in fact find Ann Coulter insulting … or if that's just our media consumer perception. But, alas, he was not around. After coming to the conclusion that Coops was not sleeping under the table of cheeses, we rattled off other possibilities. Maybe he was on his book tour? Maybe (god forbid) he's still not feeling well? Then, we chilled for a minute and realized, duh, he's working. And in LA at that.

But today TV Newser brings us this very disturbing news. Last night, Anderson was missing!

Wasn't Anderson Cooper supposed to anchor 360 from Los Angeles last night? CNN issued a press release about his West Coast tour last week, and it said "starting on Monday, June 12 in Los Angeles, anchor Anderson Cooper and his crew will explore the hotly contested debates over bilingual education and illegal immigration as well as a look at the city's commuting and traffic difficulties."

But John Roberts was in the anchor chair last night.

While CNN "promises" he'll be back tonight to talk about the equally controversial debates of immigration and rush hour, we are still a bit nervous. This is just so unlike him. You know what this means? We'll definitely be tuning in tonight to follow coverage of this major issue. No, not immigration, Anderson Cooper's health and well being.

Where's Anderson? [TV Newser]

• The days of Keith Olbermann bullying may be numbered, now that Rick Kaplan may be on his way out as MSNBC president. After getting passed over to head NBC News when Neal Shapiro announced his departure, his tenure there might not last the year.

• Howard Kurtz is joining Geraldo Rivera's cause, calling for the New York Times to issue an apology to the talk show host for claiming he staged a Hurricane Katrina rescue for the camera's benefit.

• While Rodale couldn't make Organic Style work (though it still appears on the website), the publisher is going ahead with a full-scale launch for Women's Health, the Men's Health spin-off. Finally there will be some David Zinczenko-style loving for the ladies.

• TV Guide president John Loughlin is quitting for the greener (and more stable) pastures at Hearst, taking over as vice president of the publisher late next month.

• Viacom and Comcast are working together to launch a new swatch of super-niche cable channels, because the YES Network and The Food Network aren't specific enough.

• Clear Channel is clearing the way to get song from new artists and unsigned bands into the hands of listeners by debuting tracks on their website.

• Is Men's Vogue an oxymoron all by itself? If Anna Wintour falls out of her seat and nobody there's to see it, did she really skip Diane Von Furstenberg's fashion show?