"Concerned about the appearance of disarray and feuding within his administration as well as growing resistance to his policies in Iraq, President Bush - living up to his recent declaration that he's in charge - told his top officials to 'stop the leaks' to the media, or else," report Joseph L. Galloway and James Kuhnhenn. "News of Bush's order leaked almost immediately.

David Morgan, a morning show staffer at the NBC affiliate in Tampa, minced no words when a public relations agent asked how he could get his client interviewed on the program. "You pay us and we do what you want us to do," Morgan said. "Twenty-five hundred bucks for four to six minutes." Howard Kurtz notes that most networks and local TV stations "have strict rules against pay-for-play journalism. But at WFLA-TV, in the nation's 14th-largest market, producers on 'Daytime' are not shy about asking guests to pony up.

Advertisers are "livid," says Tessa Wegert, over an FCC petition filed recently by Commercial Alert that could make TV product placement advertising a thing of the past. If the petition succeeds, Wegert frets, it would "ensure brands like Doritos and Mountain Dew never again appear on an episode of 'Survivor' without a conspicuous accompanying message disclosing their nature and origin. ...