Newsweek and Daily Beast social media editor Brian Ries says the just-launched Picture Dept Tumblr will feature photos from the magazine and website, as well as shots that didn’t get published in print or online. His release notes:

The blog’s name is part of the Newsweek legacy. One of the photo editors discovered a box of yellowed 4 x 6 index cards listing all the images that ran in the magazine from the 1920′s to the 1970′s. Each card was titled “PICTURE DEPT.” the original title of the magazine’s photo team.

* Picture Dept introduction

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Jimmy Kimmel discussed this joke he decided not to tell at the White House Correspondents’ Dinner during an appearance this week on Howard Stern’s Sirius XM show. The transcript:

STERN: Does anyone go over your material first — anyone from the president’s organization or anything?

KIMMEL: No. Nobody even hinted at asking to see my material.

STERN: Were there jokes you left out because you felt they were too harsh about the president?

KIMMEL: Yeah, there were. Yeah. I mean, you know…

STERN: You wouldn’t have felt comfortable delivering it because it would have been over the top?

KIMMEL: Like, I decided right off the bat that the N word was out.

STERN: You did, that’s not like you. You use the N word every night in your monologue at least twice. [Both laugh]

KIMMEL: I had some jokes about — like Rick Santorum. I said something like — well, I didn’t say it, but: Newt Gingrich’s campaign is so dead Mitt Romney wants to baptize it and Rick Santorum wants to put it in a jar and show it to his kids.

STERN: You didn’t want any abortion jokes?

KIMMEL: People went like, uh-oh. I ran it by people who go to this thing.

STERN: Who do you run it by?

KIMMEL: There’s a guy named Jake Tapper at ABC News, I ran jokes by him. He’s been there a lot of times. There are a few other people — reporters.

UPDATE: Tapper confirms to Dylan Stableford that he helped Kimmel:

“I tried to help Jimmy with the temperature of the room. And yes, I thought that joke would cause the room to turn against him, perhaps even causing a stampede, with the Hilton getting in on the tar and feather concession. Seeking to spare him a Rich Little-like reception, I offered my suggestions–such as they are–as to which jokes might bomb.”

* Blow-by-blow of Kimmel’s Monday appearance on Howard Stern’s Sirius XM show

Books-A-Million display

Nancy French walked into the Books-A-Million store in Spring Hills, Tenn., with her three kids last week and saw the above books display that she found disturbing.

One book promised to make this the most erotic year of your life with 365 sexual positions – one of which was shown in plain, naked view on its cover. Another was about the art of erotic massage, and had a naked woman’s torso with a man’s hand – barely – covering her.

French — who helped Bristol Palin with her memoir — complained to a clerk and was told to “call corporate if you like.”

A little flummoxed, I did just that. Instead of shopping for mother’s day, I dialed the number right there in the store. While I was on hold, another worker explained that these were paid positions on the shelf and that they weren’t allowed to deviate from what corporate dictates.

“I want to have a happy relationship with that bookstore,” she told a Tennessean reporter. “They’ll be like, ‘Here comes the Puritan — let’s make sure only Bibles are being sold.’ But that’s not me at all.”

* Books-A-Million sexuality display upsets Christian blogger (Tennessean)
* Store displays books with pornographic covers in plain view of kids (Patheos.com)