Columnist Connie Schultz at the Cleveland Plain Dealer has added her voice to those calling for new laws that would prevent Web sites from summarizing news stories that originate elsewhere.

Vibe, one of the nation’s leading popular music magazines, is closing immediately, a spokeswoman said Tuesday.

A boy lies on his back on a boardroom table in a high-rise office block in Toyko. He pulls out his Nokia, takes a photo of the setting sun - upside down - and sends it to his girlfriend in New York, where dawn is breaking. “Now I know we share the same horizon,” says the voiceover. “My sunset is your sunrise.”

When Christina Norman unexpectedly stepped down as MTV president in February 2007 after 17 years with the company, including a stint as a president of VH1, many believed she would immediately run OWN: The Oprah Winfrey Network, the fledging co-venture between Winfrey and Discovery Communications. Instead, Norman took a year off. Equally surprising, she joined OWN in January as a CEO, reuniting with her mentor and former boss, Viacom's ex-president and CEO Tom Freston, who has been consulting for the upstart. Her arrival was followed by the April departure of OWN president Robin Schwartz.

The BET Awards is the swine flu of Awards Ceremonies!