Toward the bottom of Adam Penenberg's Mother Jones piece, which debates the moral apptitude of Google, is this:

When I first contacted Google for this story, a company publicist insisted I provide a list of detailed questions, in writing; when I said that I had a problem with a source dictating the terms for an interview, he claimed that everyone who covers Google—including the New York Times and the Wall Street Journal—submits advance questions. (A Times spokeswoman told me the paper sees no ethical problems with such a procedure, though individual reporters’ decisions may vary; an editor in charge of editorial standards at the Journal said the same thing.) The Google flack assured me that this was so he could find the best person for me to talk to—more information for Google, so that Google could better serve me.

Leave it to Penenberg – a journalism professor at NYU's j-school – to turn a friendly conversation on whether Google is as trustworthy as the Bush administration into a crash course on media ethics. (Meanwhile, our requests for comment from several Times reporters went unanswered.)

Is Google Evil? [Adam Penenberg, Mother Jones]

• Rosaries have a new function: props in Lindsay Lohan's newest video. Actors playing Lohan's mom and sister (as well as the teen tart herself) are clutching the prayer beads while duking it out with an actor playing Lohan's father.

• What do you do when your campaign is sinking? Hire dancers! Mayoral candidate Freddy Ferrer is looking for a few good men to do an ad for him, a la The Sopranos. Once the twinkletoes find out that it's Ferrer that they're dancing to, they tap, tap, tap their troubles away…right to the exit door.

• Not only does Martha Stewart make a better Creme Fraiche than you, she sweats better than you too.

• Now that Donald Trump is about to be a daddy again, you can be sure he'll turn it into a marketing gimmick.

• Having turned his back on Wired.com, Adam Penenberg pops up on Slate today for his first column. Something about combating plagiarism at universities, but we're just using it as an excuse to chronicle his employer hopscotch.

• So what about those naked photos of Kevin Federline? We're too busy watching his goods swing low, sweet chariot.

• As Chinese Vogue editor Angelica Cheung launches the fashion book franchise in the world's most populous nation, we have a feeling she'll spend much less time than Anna Wintour defending her anti-fat girl policies.

• Adam Penenberg is running away from the sinking ship that is Wired.com (and you thought NYT's layoffs were destructive), heading for the sandy shores of Slate where he'll be refocusing on his technology and culture niche.

• While Us Weekly handles the PR nightmare of their Hot Stuff editor Tim McDarrah's underage sex arrest, now they've got marketing chief Gary Armstrong's trip to alcohol rehab to spin.

• New LAT editorial/op-ed editor Andres Martinez will only help the newspaper continue to lose subscribers, but then again you'd expect Nikki Finke to say something like that.

• Current TV's clever way of including advertising into programming means they run "50 to 60 percent few ads" than other networks. They also count 98 to 99 percent fewer viewers.

• Despite reports you may have heard, Sumner Redstone claims he isn't rude to his employees and would never do something like throw a lobster at a Viacom underling — but only because he rarely eats lobster.

It's one big heap of blog incest this month between this website, Adam Penenberg, Nick Denton and Arianna Huffington. Well, more so than usual.

First we've got Adam on top of the launch of Queerty, Jossip's burgeoning gay blog. From inside Mr. Denton's camp we hear he's in the midst of recruiting writers for his own gay blog.

Then Adam is recanting his initial outlook of Arianna Huffington's Huffington Post, which Nick just threw a party for last night at his SoHo loft. And we're told his Match.com profile on Jossip was a hot topic.

Not that you'd expect anything less the meta media reportage, but at least in this media-on-media culmination, only some of us are friendly.

It takes a big man to admit he was wrong, especially about Arianna Huffington. But that's exactly what FOJ Adam Penenberg is doing in his Wired.com column today, sitting down with blogmaster Arianna for a chit chat and revealing his initial assumption about what Huffington Post would turn into was, well, completely wrong.

Frankly, I didn't think a liberal version of the Drudge Report that would depend on the ruminations of blognorant celebrities like Laurie David (wife of Curb Your Enthusiasm's Larry David), octogenarian news anchor Walter Cronkite and actor John Cusack could be anything more than a virtual Hollywood cocktail party.

And it never could've been, because last we tried, Ketel One on the rocks and computer keyboards just don't mix. Now if only Wired.com offered a podcast of their exchange, because we love, love, love listening to Huffy wax media. We'd also like to hear Adam actually make this noise:

The word "blog" sounds like the noise someone makes after a plate of nachos and a few too many shots of tequila. Care to nominate another term?

Because last time he mentioned his dislike for the word "blog," it sounded "like the noise a bulimic makes after a hearty meal."

We've been waiting for (our alma mater) the S.I. Newhouse school or NYU's j-school to offer an Intro to Blogging course, finally throwing out the traditional media's emphasis on "nut grafs" and "ledes" in favor of unsubstantiated rumors and repurposing content under the guise of HTML "blockquotes."

Okay, we've only been waiting for that since media aegis Adam Penenberg raised the issue in today's Media Hack. He says traditional newspaper actually aren't dying, it's just everyone's reading them online. And they get clickity-happy.

They don't sit down with a newspaper for an hour to read it cover to cover. Instead, they bounce from site to site, story to story, link to link, customizing their newsgathering experience, clicking on whatever stories from whatever publications appeal to them.

We'd say it were media coke, but have you ever tried snorting a line off your flat screen? You gotta turn it on its side and then do your damndest not to get fingerprints everywhere. Too much trouble when you could just roll up a copy of Newsweek.

Hey, Hey, HEY now! Who dares insult any aspect of Jesus of The Internet? Google is supposed to be sacred ground, where reporters conduct research about how terrible and mismanaged Yahoo! and MSN are.

But now they've got blogger hero Adam Penenberg so fed up with Google's Blogger service outages, he'll probably write a screenplay about it.

Delving into the depths of "Blogger Sucks," Penenberg goes where any nuevo journalist would start: Google.

In fact, enter "Blogger sucks" in Google and you get 720,000 results, with most of the entries on the first few pages (read: the most popular) dedicated to these exasperating tech snafus.

It can make for some pretty ugly reading. Imagine what they might say if they actually paid for the service?

But if you put quotes around it, it's only 3,810, which means the other 716,190 bloggers on Blogger merely talk about something that sucks, which may or may not include Lindsay Lohan and Christian Slater rumors.

Winner of today's best lede: our good friend Adam Penenberg, who turned his Stephen Glass fame and fortune into a gig writing (daily? weekly?) columns for S.I. Newhouse's pet project, Wired.com.

I detest the word "blog." It sounds like the noise a bulimic makes after a hearty meal.

Then he had to go and ruin a good beginning with another article on blogs.

UPDATE: Penenberg writes in to correct our error: Conde Nast's Wired magazine and Wired.com are no longer one and the same, and haven't been for quite some time. We must've been so excited about name dropping Stephen Glass that it totally slipped our minds.