• Seth Mnookin joins parade calling bullshit on NYT's anonymous source policy.

• Ken Auletta can't call others smug when he himself, is you know, that too.

• Katie Couric isn't the only diva at CBS News.

• HuffPo's Rachel Sklar throws down with Graydon Carter, who has no idea that media blogs everywhere are watching his every chortle.

• BlackBerrys will cause your children to resent you and your spouse to leave you.

Just as we were about to launch into a marathon of lambasting Jon Friedman for his column today brimming with suggestions for Time magazine, byline candy Seth Mnookin notifies us he's already pulled the release on the guillotine. In his column today, Friedman has the "truly revolutionary" idea to move the paper's publication date to midweek instead of Monday. Unfortunately, like his other suggestions to improve the Time Inc. title (and his suggestions to improve most any aspect of media), it's already been done before. Reports Mnookin:

As Friedman asks, “Does it really make a lot of sense for the final two/sevenths of a newsmagazine’s cycle to encompass Saturday and Sunday, when little of consequence happens?”

Now, various execs at Time Inc. have advocated moving Time’s publication to mid-week for a while; hell, I know that and I haven’t down regular media reporting since 2003. Friedman, in the midst of “propos[ing]…something truly revolutionary” apparently hasn’t done the reporting to uncover what I’ve picked up in idle chatter. (The reasons for such a move wouldn’t be the two that Friedman suggests–to improve morale and encompass more of the weekly news cycle–but because there’s a good case to be made that these days, people are more likely to have time to read a newsweekly on the weekend.) What’s more, Time, like Newsweek, closes on Saturday, not Sunday; the only way it can get news that breaks on Sunday into the magazine is to rip up an issue that’s already at the printers. [...]

That’s not the only groundbreaking suggestion Friedman has; he also recommends that Time put up exclusive web content. “The American media are missing a good bet to attract greater numbers of readers” by “provid[ing] exclusive content geared only to online readers,” he says.

Except that, you know, Time.com already does that.

How Time magazine can stand apart [Jon Friedman, Marketwatch]
Amazingly, there are some j-school grads who don’t have jobs [Seth Mnookin]

Who else to cover the Judith Miller scandal than New York Times barracuda Seth Mnookin. (Yes, the same Seth Mnookin we've been accused of making to "eat a big one.")

In between discovering Arthur Sulzberger Jr. refused to let his fact finding committee talk to former NYT president Russell Lewis ("Because I don't know what the f—he's going to tell you"), Mnookin takes a gander at how the journo jigsaw puzzle was pieced together.

Mnookin describes step-by-step how the reporters, including Don Van Natta, Clifford Levy, Adam Liptak and Janny Scott, were picked to write that October piece and how Miller often failed to cooperate fully with them. Miller allegedly refused to talk to Scott because she had not bothered to write to her in jail. She complained about Adam Liptak's coverage of her release from jail.

The lesson learned: If you want interview privileges post-prison with Lil' Kim, you better send her some damn care packages. Meanwhile, when the Dec. 13 issue hits newsstands, we'll also be treated to the PG version of the X-rated details.

Elsewhere, Mnookin pulls no punches in stating that over the years Miller "had built a reputation for sleeping with her sources," had dated one of Sulzberger's best friends, Steve Ratner, "and had even, for a time, shared a vacation home with Sulzberger," whatever that means.

A scaled-to-size replica of Scooter Libby's wang would make an excellent sidebar.

'Vanity Fair' Offers Fresh Details on Judith Miller Saga [E&P]

• Congrats to Maria Sharapova for setting the record for tennis' loudest grunter, at an ear splitting 101.2 decibels (the same as a tractor!)

• If Tommy Lee can go to college, why not Monica Lewinsky? The former intern has been accepted at the prestigious London School of Economics in a one-year master's program in social psychology, which means she's leaving New York for, uh, at least one year.

• To celebrate the anniversary of their beard marriage, Star Jones and Al Reynolds are considering pulling an Angelina Jolie and adopting an offspring. You can write your own joke about Star already looking pregnant, thank you very much.

• Denise Richards and Charlie Sheen are planning a small "recommittment" ceremony for December, which only leads us to one conclusion: They're hurting for their Star checks.

• While Christina Aguilera earns a quick $2 million, Madonna nabbed $8 million for just 10 hours work shooting her Motorola Rokr phone ad campaign.

• When Young Manhattanite says Jossip's new site Queerty "inadvertently makes Seth Mnookin eat a big one," you know we've got to at least mention Mnookin's interview with Regret The Error.

• Google Maps isn't just for Craigslist postings, anymore. With, uh, Google-owned Dodgeball you can now plot where you'll be stalking your friends next.