To air Leno at 10 p.m. after all rather than 79th straight hour of local news.

Station owner Ed Ansin said, presumably with a completely straight face: "Jay is from Andover, where I went to school. I enjoy his humor."

The Globe story is by Johnny Diaz, so naturally it doesn't explain what might have really led to Ansin's change of heart.

The Dig's Media Farm is in fine form this week, with their takedown of the post-Priceian newscasts on Channel 7:

... So now, Frances Rivera has been joined by Kim Khazei. Together, they man the prime 7News broadcast, dressed in almost comical vampy outfits that mark a very different direction indeed, putting the WTF in Sefen Newz at 11 (we smell a promo!).

For example, during a newscast last week, Rivera was dressed in a vest over a frilly shirt by some sadistic wardrobe person, and Khazei was clearly still nervous after a month on the job, kicking off a story, "And new at 10 tonight, surprising results from a survey of lung yocal people." Ah. ...

How come all of Channel 7's programming is off by an hour? I was watching the late Today show at 11am when I realized their clock said 10. Channel 7 News at Noon came on at 1pm, but was live and did not say anything about a late broadcast. Their clock also said 12pm when it was actually 1.

Anyone in the media savvy world know what gives?

Julie Donaldson says she missed work, wore long sleeves to hide the results of the abuse, which she testified included getting punched in the face and thrown against a wall.

Last fall, Globe reporter Johnny Diaz profiled Channel 7's new general manager, Randi Goldklank. Now he discusses his discomfort with the way the media is ripping into one of its own:

... My discomfort with the coverage stems from having known Randi in the last year through my TV articles, which led me to write one on her. The person described in the police report doesn't mirror the enthusiastic and sprightly woman I have dealt with for a year. What is not being presented in this week's coverage is that she lives and breathes the news business. It pulses in her blood. She's aggressive but only because she likes to win and she brings an infectious energy (even when I spent time with her at her gym at 5 a.m. for my profile last Sept.) She brings that outlook to work each day to motivate her staff. I wish I had seen more of that in the coverage but all we had to go by was detailed in the police reports and my previous profile on her - something the other media didn't have. ...

Globe arts critic Mark Feeney won a Pulitzer for criticism, for ten essays.

Junot Diaz, a creative writing instructor at MIT, won the Pulitzer for fiction for his novel, The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao.

Channel 7 is getting rid of health reporter Deanna Lites, the Herald reports.

Jessica Heslam gets a copy of the appellate ruling letting Channel 7 air its story on the two Tai Ho firefighters by overturning a lower court ruling that banned it from doing so (even as every other news outlet in town was doing stories on the subject):

... "Simply put, the inability of the press to require the government to disclose information that is not part of the public record does not support a restraint on speech with respect to information already known to the press," Grainger wrote.

OK, so somebody at Wal-Mart (or maybe the camcorder factory) wanted to recreate that SNL skit with Justin Timberlake, only a bit more graphically. And, sure, it warrants the seven-alarm all-hands-on-deck coverage that only WHDH could provide. Still, Dave Alpert doesn't get Channel 7 referring to the mom and her "teenage child:"