Fine on Media on the Newseum: "The Newseum is designed for an era when news anchors and their ilk had a central status in public discourse, not a shrinking one. It was built for yesterday, not today—and definitely not tomorrow." [BW]

Jon Fine is like the guy you felt obligated to invite to your party, and once he gets there, all he does is bitch about the drink selection.

In an article that might have been relevant a year ago, Business Week media writer Jon Fine complains about Facebook. It’s not that Facebook could destroy career opportunities for college students who post pictures of themselves doing bong hits or that the social networking site has become more of an office distraction than porn. Instead, the site is too popular. Everyone from his “ex-band mates” to his pals at News Corp. are on it, and he doesn’t want them knowing about each other.

This makes me sound like a character in a John Hughes movie getting all angsty over the high school cafeteria seating chart, I suppose, but no one can deny that the world of work is the high school cafeteria all over again.

Along with missing the point of Facebook, Jon missed the point of The Breakfast Club. The jock, the freak, the brain, the beauty and the rebel were all BFF at the end.

"Play with me on this one," writes media columnist Jon Fine. "Which major American newspaper should be the first to throw up its hands and stop publishing a print product? It's a question worth asking. When exactly, do you junk something that no longer works? And which major paper should go first &emdash; not today, but within the next 18 or 24 months?"

And we think it's pretty obvious who he's talking about.

It's been a long, sometimes vaguely amusing ride, guys. But at some point you've got to just cut your losses and face the facts.

You don't have the deranged homeless guy following of an AM New York or a NY Metro, the staying power of inexplicable mainstay The Village Voice or the subversive humor quotient of your average episode of Doogie Howser, M.D..

It's been nice knowing—and occasionally reading—you.

• FCC has no faith in the V-chip, which means its only choice is to defend the "seven dirty words" law.

• The New Yorker plans a February relaunch of its website, this time with columns of text wider than your thumbnail.

• Jon Fine is either eagerly anticipating or dreading WSJ's new approach to news breaking.

• Staffers at smaller papers can get away with more amusing pranks.

• For the first time in years, cable companies won't gouge you with rate increases.

• Exiting Early Show anchor Rene Syler uses newfound unemployment to deal with health matters.

• MTV wraps its machismo offerings into one branded package.

• Kevin Federline isn't gambling on his unborn child just yet. [TMZ]

• While Britney Spears makes a total ass of herself. [DListed]

• You may not have a clue what Jon Fine is talking about, but even if you're only semi-intellectual, you can laugh at his rock star moves. [FBNY]

• Strolling past these brownstones, you might just think you're in Park Slope. But you can put down the cyanide … it's just the much hipper nabe of Prospect Heights. [NYO]

• Big news in the world of a show we didn't even know was still on: Marlee Matlin joins the cast of L World. [AP]