And here are the highlights.

Alternate punchline: Funny how the paper has yet to run a photo of Scott Brown looking hunky while reading a book.

Just one question: How did Mahmoud Ahmadinejad get left off the list???

One is BoMag’s oral history of Teddy K, for which I interviewed a handful of former aides. In the interests of not killing journalism off completely, the thing’s not online. Half the city worked really hard putting this thing together; the least you can do is plunk down a few bones to buy yourself a hard copy to cuddle with at night.

Also, last week was the Dig‘s tenth anniversary. In acknowledgment of that fact, the paper ran a collection of scattershot disgraces it has visited upon humanity. I contributed a hundred words on an old drunk who used to double as an intern back in 2003.

That piece is best appreciated with this visual in mind: A pair of writers barge into the Cellar, and come face-to-face with the elderly drunkard who used to intern at their paper. The man has drink straws inserted fully into his nose and ears. He is escorted off the premises. He still smells the same, which is to say, not at all good.

HOWEVER. These are minor revelations, compared to what the Dot Reporter has been able to dig up. And that is: Michael Kineavy, City Hall’s very own Machiavellian Rasputin-y Cheney, has fine taste in subversive journalism. Or, maybe, “journalism.” Thanks to Hizzoner’s grudging compliance with the laws of this great and free nation, we now know that Michael Kineavy was giddily (guessing there) forwarding along great works of journalism by Weekly Dig alums including Chris Faraone and, uh, myself.

Newly un-double-deleted emails show Kineavy felt it was important for municipal workers busy doing the people’s business inside City Hall to read Faraone’s merciless demolition of Dianne Wilkerson’s don’t-call-it-a-comeback rally, and a B&T story of mine in which Nick Varano turns a North End licensing meeting into the most laff-tastic assemblage of people in a Bingo hall, ever. Check them both out, and find out what all the hype’s about!

Also, plz consider this post a test of City Hall’s Google alert system. Thx.

Zuckerman tells Forbes that the $50 million is just the start. He’s sinking a full $200 million of his own cash into the Daily News‘s new presses. Why? Because when he’s done, the paper will look really cool. And he just can’t help himself.

“These presses will give us 120 to 160 pages of fantastic, magazine-quality color with incredible speed and efficiency. There is only one other printing plant in the U.S. that approximates this kind of visual experience. We will leapfrog every newspaper in America. That said, I’m not trying to pretend this is going to make the Daily News hugely profitable. I’m doing this, to be candid with you, as much as anything else because I’m addicted to the print press. I’ve been a fanatic about journalism since I was 12 years old.”

So much for that Globe rumor.

Also: Is there rehab for print addicts?

Jay Fitzgerald correctly notes that that prospect makes those old cash-out estimates look “quaintly high.”

That’s the take of one of several media analysts polled by David Carr in today’s Times.

And the beautiful thing is, that $1 isn’t even the lowest price that these pros predict the paper could sell for. Mark Simonton, who popped up in last week’s Journal to say that the paper’s union troubles essentially make it untradeable, revises that estimate – downward. He’s now estimating that “the Times Company would have to pay a buyer around $20 to 40 million in order to sever their ties with this untenable cost.”

Over at the Phoenix, Reilly puzzles over how spectacularly the Times mangled this week’s Guild vote. It’s truly shocking, given what a well-run corporation the Times Co. is normally.

Kennedy links to an interesting post on Poynter in which a Times Co. spokeswoman admits that, of the big scary $85 million loss the Globe‘s on the hook for this year, only $20 million is cash. The rest is a paper loss coming from buyouts and the plummeting value of the Globe itself. I’m sure Guild brass will point to this and say, See? We told you they’re a bunch of filthy lying liars. But that stand will only be half true.

Lumping a goodwill write-down in with an operating loss, as the Times Co. seems to have done here, seems duplicitous at best. Throw a couple of your own adjectives in there for good measure. Cash losses and paper losses shouldn’t be treated as interchangeable.

That’s not to say that the Times Co. shouldn’t be worried about those losses, though. Every time it books another $40, $60, $100 million loss on the Globe‘s value, it’s a recognition that the Globe, as an entity, is worth less and less, that another chunk of that $1.1 billion it bought the paper for is gone forever. It’s not a $1 million per week cash gusher, but it’s still a very real loss, and it isn’t good or healthy or irrelevant.

One other point: Thank goodness this sweaty suit isn’t standing between me and my paycheck.