• God help us if it's Details that's chronicling the new class war.
• Celebrities who blog finally receive well-deserved attention.
• Cute! The WSJ gets to the bottom of those annoying underlined text link ads you've seen (and read about) everywhere.
• Lindsay Lohan throws some kerosene on her Paris Hilton feud, claiming the heiress threw a drink at her.
• Sixth grade math puts the cost of canceling the O.J. Simpson book-interview extravaganza at $10 million.
• NBC and MSNBC begin calling Iraq a "civil war." Tony Snow certain to get angry.
• We love a hefty Ken Auletta media piece in The New Yorker (this week: Lou Dobbs!). We don't love having to choose just one punchline from thousands and thousands of words of copy.
• Publicists: Leave David Carr alone for a while, and he just might talk to you.
• Tom Mazzarelli begins staffing up Fox's morning show, with nary a Today show staffer in sight.
• Simon Dumenco read skimmed Reader's Digest, and lived to tell about it.
Exclusive
With Today show and NBC Nightly News job cuts expected to arrive at any moment, industry insiders are wondering where all those pink slipped staffers are going to end up. But one well-placed source tells us a select number of them may not be out in the cold after all. We're told some of NBC's cuts may wind up at Fox News, thanks to an open door provided by Tom Mazzarelli.
You know Tom as in the former senior producer at the Today show that just took a job (as of Monday) at FNC's yet-unnamed national morning show, to be hosted by former Dayside anchors Mike Jerrick and Juliet Huddy. Mazzarelli was at the Today show for years, first under Tom Touchet's regime – who was ousted in April 2005, with many speculating it was Katie Couric's doing – and then under current exec producer Jim Bell.
Our tattler suggests Mazzarelli – who arrived at the Today show with MSNBC and Larry King Live credentials – might be looking to staff up his new gig with old cronies for the January 22 launch of the 9am morning show. So let Jeff Zucker release the guillotine; but let's make sure the departing NBC staffers know their route to News Corp. first.
