Noted crazy man Jim Cramer muses today that in the coming year, as stock of the New York Times Company continues to tank, current...

LOS ANGELES: The Writers Guild of America has hired Bill Carrick and Kam Kuwata, both prominent California political consultants, to advise them during the ongoing writers strike.

As late night talk shows finally returned to the air, a nation numbed by reruns focuses more on the hosts' "strike beards" than on the monologues. Leno returns and delivers his own jokes in violation of WGA rules, raising questions about whether his hack writers will return happy. Meanwhile, forecast for the Weather Channel: slight chance of sale, with $5 billion in showers.

NEW YORK: Lifetime Television's publicity department launched a multi-week media campaign to generate buzz for its new show How to Look Good Naked. The cable network said the run up to the January 4 premiere is its largest for any reality show in Lifetime's history.

BENTONVILLE, AR: Working Families for Wal-Mart (WFWM), the Edelman-run group designed to serve as a positive public face composed of supporters of the retailer, is being changed into a completely in-house endeavor.

The biggest media story of 2007 - in fact, the only real media story of 2007 - was the changes being inflicted on the media by the Internet. Every other story was an offshoot of this fundamental dynamic.

CUPERTINO, CA: A popular blog receiving leaked information about Apple products has agreed to shut down in the wake of a company lawsuit, raising questions about whether bloggers should have the same rights as journalists.

SF Weekly today takes a look at MediaNews CEO Dean Singleton and his distaste for newsroom unions. Which is unfortunate, since the MediaNews-owned