Grand jury testimony by Scooter Libby has him claiming that Dubya himself authorized the former chief of staff to Vice President Dick Cheney to leak parts of a prewar intelligence estimate on WMDs in Iraq.

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Vancouver's CKNW Radio lost the rights to broadcast Vancouver Canucks games three weeks ago, and has now gone after its own newsroom with a scythe.

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The U.S. Center for Media and Democracy says at least 77 local stations in the U.S. have been caught running corporation-generated news reports in the past 10 months. Not only that, some of these stations have actually tried to disguise those reports and make them look like original reporting.

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The headline above Lawrence Martin's column in today's Globe and  Mail asks: "Are we being taken for a ride on Afghanistan too?"

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Farhad Manjoo at Salon has the same relationship with The Daily Show's Jon Stewart as I do; He loves the guy most of the time, but wants to kick his ass when Jonno gets soft, moist and supine with some of his interview subjects.

Manjoo thought Stewart handled his Tuesday night interview with John McCain -- who accepted a speaking engagement at Jerry Falwell's Liberty University -- with just the right tone.

Read  Manjoo's blog posting here (free with a daypass).

Myself, I thought Stewart was okay in that exchange, but he really redeemed himself last summer with Christopher Hitchens.

Some stuff on Katie Couric, who will become the first woman to solo-anchor a Monday-to-Friday U.S. network newscast when she becomes anchor and managing editor of the CBS Evening News in September.

TorStar, April 7: K-K-K-Katie!!! (blog, links to treeware column)

NYT, April 7: Couric says Jump, and fans reach for their remotes

NYT, April 6: Anchor's chair was an irresistible lure for Couric

NYT, April 5: Couric announces departure from 'Today' show

LAT, April 6: CBS is betting on 'Today' anchor's pull with viewers

LAT, April 6: It isn't the old evening news on CBS anymore (column)

Wash. Post, April 6: The new apple of CBS's eye: Katie Couric plans big changes at newscast

Newsday is a daily on Long Island that is owned by the Tribune Company Ltd. The paper has gone through three buyouts in two years, losting 150 people from the editorial staff in the process.

To enhance feelings of job security, unionized journalists there have noted bylines appearing from AmNewYork, a freebie, non-unionized daily -- one in which a certain company has a major investment.

Can anyone name the company? Any wild guesses out there?

Read the full April 3 NYT story.

John Green, executive producer of ABC's Good Morning America (Weekend), gets a month off without pay after some e-mails critical of Dubya and former U.S. Secretary of State Madeleine Allbright surfaced in The Drudge Report and New York Post, respectively.

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An eye-opening expose on the high cost of looking glamorous in the Big Apple. And until reading this story, I didn't realize the difference between being a New York Blonde and a New York blonde.

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