This Week’s Riff That I Wish I Wrote: By Chris Willman on EW.com.

Playing The Dozens: A dozen. That’s the number of reports the FCC put out yesterday in an information overload that is bound to short-circuit some of the real constructive debate about changes in media ownership rules.

Got Growth? Part I: We’ve been knocking around the ad revenue forecast for 2003 here in the idyllic setting of Westport. Without any grounding in the science of forecasting, I have to go to the basics.