Must-Read Media Links

Sean Hannity (right) to Go It Alone, Without Alan Colmes (NYT)

Former Philadelphia local news anchor Larry Mendte, who admitted over the summer to hacking into co-anchor Alycia Lane’s e-mail, was sentenced Monday to six months house arrest (HuffPo)

Social Networking Traffic Up as Advertising Falls Flat (Mediaweek)

Do Publishers Still Believe in Magazines? (AdAge)

Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, the publisher of authors including Philip Roth, Jonathan Safran Foer, Günter Grass and J. R. R. Tolkien, has temporarily suspended acquisitions of new manuscripts (NYT)

Reality TV is Over? (Medialife)

Nielsen: TV use at all-time high (THR)

Sumner Redstone, the controlling shareholder of Viacom and CBS proposed to sell his family’s 1,500-screen theater chain in an effort to restructure his large debt load (NYT)