Media Blitz: Maureen Dowd Refuses To Discuss Dick, Rummy, Her Inability To Land A Man, For Anyone Other Than The NYT 34772

• Time mag attempts to poach The New York Times‘ columnists; gets “brutally rebuffed” by op-ed contributors MoDo and Tom Friedman.

• Jared Paul Stern is cleared of extortion charges, plans to celebrate by throwing a really big lawsuit.

• Rupert Murdoch enters the billionaires’ bidding-war over Tribune, hoping to combine the New York Newsday and the New York Post into new, crappy hybrid.

• GMA anchor Chris Cuomo comes this-close to being killed in that Iraq war President Bush keeps promising us we’ll win.

• So apparently, you’re not encouraged to take $50K joyrides on the company’s private jet.

• The pervy NYT was right on the money-shot! Porn industry expected to determine the future of HDTV.