In the name of totally un-fact-checked, unsubstantiated, barely interesting, but all we needed to complete our day gossip, we bring you the latest on the crappy journalism job over at the News.

Inside tip….red faces as the Daily News today over their page one picture. The Snooze was so short of material yesterday they had to ‘beg and borrow’ the picture from Long Island’s Newsday. Now questions are being asked at the highest level about how ‘the hometown picture paper’ came to reproduce Newsday staff photographer David L. Pokress’s image with no credit on the top half of page one.

The Snooze had been caught napping on their fleet week coverage the day before on a different fly past and could not tell the editor they had missed another one we hear.

Newsday ran the picture, a lot sharper and with better color, on page 6.

Did we find the front page photo on Newsday's site? Nope.

Did we call the Daily News? Nope. And why didn't we call the News? Because we know that that the their fact checking policy is to leave voicemails the Friday before a holiday and then run the story regardless of if they receive a response or not. And we know if we did call, we'd get live person on the phone, because Ben Smith is still sending us links to his column.

Oh, apparently there are also staffers at the News who don't know what Google is. And that random bit concludes our media gossip quota for the day. Enjoy your traffic filled ride to the rainy beach.