Rebekah Wade eat your heart out - Courtney Cox is set to sex up our image of the typical tabloid editor in this evening's new sitcom 'Dirt'. Channel 5 US is going to deliver a helping of smutty journalism every Monday starting from today.

Cox will shock loyal Monica Geller fans as she plays a character still obsessed with control but in a more power-hungry and relentlessly evil way.

Top tip? Watch out for the reading-proofs-on-the-bed scene. Monica would be physically ill at the thought.

Rupert Murdoch is a busy busy man. His plan to take over the Wall Street Journal seems to have finally worked. The Bancroft family have for whatever reason 'relaxed' and Dow Jones's jewel will fall into the lap of Murdoch very soon.

Ranked no.2 in today's The Guardian Media 100, Murdoch is as powerful as ever with his raft of dot.com assets including the mighty Myspace bought earlier this year - but is the acquisition of WSJ one step too far?

I am all for the free markets inevitably born out of capitalism, leading to the creation of moguls - but surely it is dangerous for so much media control to be in the hands of one man?

Media owners will always be around but such conglomeration is worrying. All our news will be skewed one way and one way alone. Within a couple of years the WSJ will be providing the content for Fox News - a concept I find scary and bewildering. The future of our industry is becoming very narrow indeed – ironic in this age of mass information and convergence some may say.