Newsbriefs, 7/25: 360 Degrees of Fragrance

• Stop Making Scents: Towleroad reports that "Tom Ford is hot on the tail of Anderson Cooper, trying to get him to throw his name behind a signature fragrance." Don't know if Coop will agree to bottle his musk, let alone give it a name like "Armoire," but it's certain to sell a lot better than the last CNN fragrance, "You Smell That?: Cafferty."
• Don't Forget the LOLCat Debate: As Extreme Mortman points out, the CNN/YouTube debate is just the tip of the iceberg when it comes to using the internet to permanently cripple our political discourse.
• Speaking of...: TV Newser crunches the numbers on the debate's ratings. Their take? Disappointment. Err, scratch that, maybe. Okay...qualify it.

• Hey, You Should Take That Act On the Road! Like, now.: WaPo's Paul Farhi polishes his act for amateur night: "So, what's the deal with breaking news? Does it ever get broken? Does it ever get fixed? Don't get me started...really, don't get me started!" And, yet, still funnier than anything at this year's White House Correspondents' Dinner.
• This Day in Impromptu Murdochiana Art Installations: Passersby, Dow Jones employees contribute their musings on a portrait of Rupert supplied by artist Geoffrey V. Raymond. We know what James Ottaway is getting for Christmas!
• Score One More Point for the Cult of the Amateur!: Bloggers earned another power that they'll no doubt soon abuse to the most ridiculous extremes possible: the CIA will now process their FOIA requests for free.