The "Hillary Death Watch" feature Slate launched yesterday is likely to anger Clinton insiders, but it'll be interesting to see if it has any effect on the Clinton campaign's relations with Slate's corporate cousins — namely, the Washington Post and Newsweek, and a smattering of local television stations, whose access to the candidate is crucial.

Not that anyone should be expecting a tidal wave shift in Clinton's feelings toward those other properties. After all, most publications have sister outlets under the same corporate umbrella: Fox News and the New York Post; the New York Times and the Boston Globe; the Los Angeles Times and Newsday; In Touch and Life & Style (we threw that in just for good measure).

The operations of one rarely impact the relationships at another. Unless you're owned by Rupert Murdoch, and then you're just F'd.