• Bill Powers wants the media to be more like Apple (overpriced and explosive) or Starbucks (overpriced and omnipresent). [National Journal]

• At the Corporation for Public Broadcasting: Out with the old GOP hack, in with the new GOP hack. Even money that Jonah Goldberg's about to get his own PBS show. [WP]

• The LAT's new ethics guidelines are both stunningly obvious and incredibly deceptive. [Gawker, Reference Tone]

• Leak investigation has leaks. [Crawford's List]