This month's Coaster Correspondence in Vanity Fair was among the best we've seen so far: Ed Coaster having a stroke and Men's Health editor Dave Zinczenko helping him heal with an ab crunch routine. Brilliant stuff, and even Radar's Jeff Bercovici managed to pick up on the humor, penning an item of his own on Monday detailing the "oh-so-inside dig at Zinczenko's history with deceased GQ editor Art Cooper." (As you'll remember, it was Zinczenko who was lunching with Cooper when he died.) Bercovici opined that the VF spoof was Graydon's attempt to see Zinczenko "brought low" after the MH editor, in an editor's letter, blamed Cooper's trainer for his death.

But when Eat The Press checked in with Bercovici to see if he even talked to Graydon about the item – which, to be sure, alleged a full-on feud between Camp Carter and Zinczenko – he comes up short. Nope, Jeff didn't make a phone call to run his information past the VF editor. Which, normally, we'd be quite all right with — us being lazy bloggers and all. Except it wasn't so long ago that Jeff placed a hateful call to Jossip regarding a supposed "exclusive" of Jeff's that Keith Kelly had written about six months earlier. Bercovici's biggest whine? That Jossip never called him to ask for comment.

Ah hah! So that's why we've heard more than one media insider call the former WWD scribe "Jeff Berco-sleazy."