Apple is directly creating ads on the iPhone and imposing "tight control" over the creative process for its "iAds" platform, sources tell the Wall Street Journal. The control-freakery has already driven away Chanel and delayed other campaigns.

Apparently, people have seen and enjoyed Breaking Bad, AMC's newly-minted series, continuing both the network's flare for both drama and alliteration. Mad Men, AMC's other show, won two awards at the recent Golden Globes press conference. We are vaguely concerned that AMC might lose touch with its roots and deprive us…