"Dumb and Dumber" is the headline for Michael Massing's review of CNN, in which, after its recent ratings "shellacking" -- the lowest monthly prime-time ratings in 20 years -- he "decided to tune in after a long hiatus." "It’s even worse than I remembered," Massing notes, skewering everything from Piers Morgan ("truly fatuous") to Wolf Blitzer's interview with Bill Clinton. "Overall the words that kept coming to mind while I viewed CNN were: conventional, unimaginative, repetitive, and—most damning of all—boring," he writes. "What’s really striking... though, is how little actual news—how little reporting—there is on it."

Former ad exec Barbara Lippert is joining MediaPost as editor at large, writes Stuart Elliott in a piece that makes much of the fact that Lippert was also once an ad critic rival of Bob Garfield, who became a MediaPost editor at large last month.  

"New Orleans business and community leaders" are rallying to protest Advance Publications' decision to cease daily publication of the city's prize-winning Times-Picayune, writes Cameron McWhirter. The group is also exploring other options, from seeking a buyer to starting an online paper. The plans to publish three days a week, "disclosed publicly on May 24, would make New Orleans the largest city in the country without a daily print newspaper," writes McWhirter.

There will be a Urkaine edition of Vogue magazine within a year, making (according to Wikipedia) 20 national editions and one regional edition for Conde Nast's iconic glossy fashion book. Ukrainian multimedia company UMH Group will be publisher, through a licensing agreement with Conde Nast.

Viacom's cable network Logo, targeted strictly to the LGBT community since its launch in 2005, is adding programs aimed at straight women. The first was "Eden's Wood," about kids' beauty pageants, which debuted in April, to be followed by shows about gay and straight couples like "Love Lockdown." "Logo is using NBCUniversal’s Bravo and Discovery’s TLC as a template of sorts, sources" tell Claire Atkinson. "Both channels have shows with high concentrations of gay viewers."

Satellite operator DirecTV, like its rival Dish Network, has ad-skipping technology available -- but, unlike the latter (now being sued by the networks) probably won't use it -- at least for now. "It's not clear to me there's a raging demand from consumers for it," Mike White, chief executive of DirecTV, said at the Reuters Global Media and Technology Summit. However, "White said his company will keep an eye on the outcome of the legal action between the companies as well as consumer adoption of the technology," write Liana B. Baker and Yinka Adegoke.White also said …

Why didn't Apple's Tim Cook announce a third-party app update to Apple TV in his keynote at WWDC? Despite rumors to the contrary, "Apple TV remains closed, with access to a limited number of partner apps," writes Janko Roettgers. One reason: the big gap between number of Apple TVs and iPads recently sold (2.7 million to 40.5 million). "And a smaller device footprint equals less money and opportunities for developers," according to Roettgers. Also, Apple has not told developers "where it wants to go with Apple TV. Is it an accessory, an Airplay receiver? Or …

Warner Bros. Television is making an "unorthodox" early syndication pitch for two top-rated CBS sitcoms: "Mike & Molly," which just finished its second season,  and  freshman "Two Broke Girls," available separately or together, writes Alex Ben Block. So far "Modern Family" is the only comedy sold into syndication after one season instead of waiting to reach the magic number of 100 episodes. "Mike & Molly" syndication episodes would begin airing in 2014, the "Girls" eps the following year. Block has sources discussing the viability of such a deal, which the company hopes will follow …

Next month Conde Nast will launch mobile game Fashion Hazard as part of its Interactive Product Group (so it's not tied to any particular glossy magazine). "Aimed at teens and young women (think under 25), Fashion Hazard allows players to live out a runway model fantasy, then triumph over the hazards of the high-flying life on the catwalk," writes Mike Shields.

Online streaming of TV shows from the four major networks plus Spanish-language broadcasters Telemundo and Univision will feature content ratings from the TV Parental Guidelines Monitoring Board similar to the movie industry's ratings system. "The ratings will be included in all episodic streams on Web sites like ABC.com and Fox.com by December," writes Brian Stelter. (Speaking of those warnings, the notice before last night's "Mad Men" that there would be "nudity" -- we believe it said "partial nudity" -- was an advance notice of a surprising non-love scene, one that was either a disappointment …