• Could NBC's properties be scoring all those Larry Birkhead exclusives because they have some sort of business relationship? Take that, The Insider.

• Nothing is more exhausting than being news executive everybody hates — except coming up with a catchy term like "media manifesto" that you hope everyone else will start using.

• Jon Friedman holds out his wang for Dave Zinczenko to touch it, fingers crossed that he will.

• So, like, Rosie O'Donnell is a big deal and stuff?

• Like most average working people, Matt Lauer had a bad day once.

• New Garden & Gun magazine takes one part Guns & Ammo, one part Home & Garden, and one part "out on a limb."