Thought nightly news anchors didn’t know what was fresh? Couldn’t relate to how young people jibed? Well, think again, because Brian Williams is down, and he even has the bracelet to prove it.

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• The $50 million Imus franchise is in peril. Quick, someone get Michael Richards.

• Inside Cable News v. Eat the Press: The biggest non-feud of the week.

• Larry Birkhead hasn't collected his $5 million tell-all story (complete with photoshoot!) because, well, he's an indecisive shit.

• LAT finally gets around to covering its own backyard.

• MySpace and Photobucket – the photo sharing service you use to keep porn from your wife – are feuding.

• WNYC fete its new home at a breakfast this morning. Which meant A.M. hours. Which meant there wasn't a chance in hell of us hitting that.

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Remember when, five seconds ago, we posted an item accusing Saturday Night Live of ripping off a Best Week Ever skit in Saturday's episode? The one where Mel Gibson's Apocalypto is "translated" into the hateful English words that Americans can understand? Well let's not forget that our dear friends at Eat The Press gave the flick similar treatment on Friday:

So should we lump Rachel Sklar, Nick Douglas, and Melissa Lafsky into that same gaggle of copycats? We thought about it, and then realized: 1) We would've pulled the same gimmick, had we thought of it; and 2) Any blog that gets ripped off by Tucker Carlson's "Beat The Press" deserves quite a few free passes.

You remember Nick Douglas, don't you? He's the plucky fella who was launch editor for Nick Denton's tech gossip site Valleywag. He also hates when you call him "plucky fella." Last month, he abruptly left his Silicon Valley chattering ways, fueling speculation of "did he resign or was he fired?" The 8-Ball points to the former, but today there's also good fortune: news that he's joined deep pocketed Huffington Post as an Eat The Press contributing editor. Also joining the payroll: Opinionista sblogger (and BFF of ETP editor Rachel Sklar) Melissa Lafsky. Which means Dave Zinczenko will soon have two beauties on his arm at those never-ending calendar of book parties. Half of which are for him, anyhow.

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."