"WNYC Public Radio, New York magazine, Viacom, CBS Radio, and movie mogul Harvey Weinstein’s company have recently taken office space in Hudson Square, joining Community Media L.L.C., publishers of Downtown Express, The Villager, Chelsea Now, Gay City News and Thrive NYC." [DE]

While Portfolio's Jeff Bercovici wonders whether last week's New York profile is what motivated Matt Drudge to cancel his radio show (it wasn't; turns out, Drudge made that call before the article ran), it's clear the Internet's most pernicious link publisher wasn't happy with it. And not just evidenced by his refusal to participate.

As a New York letter to the editor (or "Comment," as Adam Moss calls them) reads this week: "Among his quarks, blogger Matt Drudge is known for linking to stories that mention his name. But not always: He has yet to link to "Watching Matt Drudge," by Philip Weiss, which is bad, since the salient fact about Drudge is that he drives traffic."

The conflict of interests in Lloyd Groves's profile of Col Allan extends even further. A tipster writes in,

The New York Post editor has many MANY (I mean like 10-15) emails from Lloyd Grove begging for a job here after he was fired from Daily News.

Apparently, Grove's emails went unanswered, and he had to settle for writing at a magazine whose demographic reads the Times.

New York is a small town, and the media industry is even smaller. Need proof? This week, New York Magazine has a profile of a New York Post editor written by a former writer from the New York Daily News.

Let’s get all the conflicts of interests straight in this profile of Col Allan:

• Lloyd Grove, who wrote the piece, used to work for the New York Daily News.
• At the Daily News, Grove’s assistant was Hudson Morgan.
• After Page Six writer Chris Wilson was ejected from the Republican Convention for spitting on whiskey on Morgan, Col Allan asked, “Why didn’t you punch him?”

Grove doesn’t waste too much time defending his former assistant (and current New York Observer scribe) in the pages of New York Magazine. Instead, Grove lets Allan disparage his former employer at length. In between, Grove writes the quintessential profile of anyone connected with the New York Post.

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Yale grad, former Rush & Molly junior gossip, heartthrob and current New York Daily News all-arounder Chris Rovzar is, at last, decamping the staid world of print journalism for … online gossiping! We hear Chris is leaving to head up New York magazine's online Intelligencer column. His last day at the News will be Aug. 1, with his rumored-to-be-16-posts-per-day (though not definite) gig beginning Aug. 6, where the column will focus heavily on "personalities."

We called Chris for more details, but alas, there was a TV crew that needed him to run his mouth about the Emmys.

It's worth noting, of course, how the paths of Chris and former R&M stringer Jo Piazza have diverged so greatly. (Also worth mentioning: Jossip ed Debbie Newman used to intern at R&M.)

Numero Uno on New York magazine's list of "A Ranking of Seven Hotels for Under $200 a Night. In New York": the Hyatt Regency in Jersey City, New Jersey.

The Saturday Night Live cast member has been culturally relevant to New Yorkers (and even Americans-at-large) for only, like, an entire year! And SNL is in the off-season, which means Adam Moss' rag's only worthwhile news peg for what's going to be a mostly-ignored mid-July issue is that crap-tastic movie Hot Rod he's in that's going to secure his future as slapstick reject. Proud moments.

Jeanne Moos's man-on-the-street packages are among our most favorite-ist things in the world, right up there with Britney Spears crotch shots and bunnies.

It's even better when the CNN streetwalker is talking about something we're interested in, like Katie Couric's New York cover story — and the part where she talks about slapping a producer for using the word "sputum" in a report about that Andrew Speaker guy. (The seriousness of which Katie's camp denies.)

Says Moos about the New York article: "One little anecdote is getting lots of attention." Not from CNN, of course.

In the aftermath of Joe ("Hottie") Hagan's Katie Couric profile in New York, nobody appears to have asked Katie's camp what she thought of the piece. Which isn't that surprising, given most outlets (ourselves included) liberally expound on Couric without much concern for her opinion. So we checked in with Matt Hiltzik, Katie's rep at Freud Communications, who "begrudgingly" tells us that he "doesn't want to discuss the details" of the article – As in: Did Katie hate how it turned out? Was she annoyed that all anyone is talking about is the slapping incident? – but "Katie remains very optimistic about the direction of the news and hopefully anyone who read it reached that same conclusion." It's a B.S. soundbite, sure, but at least we can't be accused of being unfair.

And if we would've asked CBS' PR chief Gil Schwartz about it, he'd probably end up talking about himself, so there.

By producing articles like this one.

New York magazine's Arianne Cohen and her the economic adviser Edward Glaeser (who pretty much fed this article to her) chose an eclectic group of New York City professions and attempted to show us exactly how this city is its own economic ecosystem.

For example, if we, as media bloggers, are squirrels … then New York magazine is our nut: We only survive because of them.

While the enlightening aspect of this article is completely lost by the choppy design, we did learn one valuable lesson: It'd be wise to quit this whole blogging thing and become meth dealers.

Intern Joseph takes a quick look at our favorite New York City species…after the jump.

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"But sometimes it feels like for every person who likes what I do, there are a dozen who hate me for it," whines Jim Kramer in this week's New York. "Mad Money has spawned legions of haters, people who write about the show and my character in really negative, sometimes pretty nasty ways. These people accuse me of being a clown or an idiot. Usually, I agree with them. When people ask for my autograph, I instantly hate myself. Half the time I don’t believe I even deserve a television show, and the other half I spend believing that no one is more deserving of a show."

As you know about Jim, he's a fella with a lot to say. In addition to his CNBC "booyah-ing" thrice daily and managing TheStreet.com, Jim also writes a regular finance column for Adam Moss' weekly rag. Somehow, this week, they also gave him the cover.

It's a worthwhile read, in fact, but probably only if you're interested in media and money. (And if you aren't, get the hell off this site).

Cramer explains his process (it's not too well formed, we gathered), his secret weapon (his witty nephew), and his qualifications to dish out stock advice (he made himself rich off the advice he preaches; 'nough said). He also, knowingly, solicits the very criticism he claims not to understand.

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• The entertainment "really, really sucked" at Saturday night's White House Correspondents' Dinner.

• Anything that will "take lowbrow culture seriously and treat highbrow culture frivolously" is alright by us.

• YouTube is very, very sorry that it accidentally-on-purpose deleted this clip of presidential candidate John McCain singing the impromptu ditty, "Bomb Iran."

• John Edwards takes heat for his $400 haircut. When asked whether this constituted extreme vanity, an Edwards rep sniped, 'Not everyone can carry off the low-maintenance pageboy lesbian look."

• Chinese furniture manufacturing companies are accidentally racist. Related: Don Imus rumored to have "large" ownership in Chinese furniture manufacturing company.

• "Abs architect David Zinczenko will bring his expertise on love and relationships to The Oprah Winfrey Show." So many punchlines, so little time.

Adam Moss explored groundbreaking new heights with his innovative look "Behind the Hedge" in last week's issue of New York Magazine.

Because doing an exposeé on the hedge fund industry, and slapping it with a cover of some guy peering over a hedge is nothing if not original.

Just ask the editorial staff who worked on the explores groundbreaking new heights November/December 2005 issue of Legal Affairs.

Hey, remember the other day when New York Magazine ran that long, in-depth profile on Judith Regan, claiming to offer the "bitchy editrix" perspective on that whole O.J. Simpson earning-money-for-murdering-his-wife fiasco?

Well, turns out Nicole Brown's family was none too pleased, both by the part where Judith admitted to fasting for months at a time (seriously, who does that?) and that whole business where the author claimed Brown's family was in negotiations to strike a deal with their loved one's "hypothetical" killer for a piece of the (profit) pie.

So, they decided to sue.

Yesterday, their lawyers slapped NY Mag with a letter, demanding an immediate correction and apology, and accusing the author of ignoring any/all of their statements contradictory to the story she originally had in mind.

And now, NY Mag has apparently fired back, responding with a half-hearted apology to the Brown family, (i.e. sorry we may have accidentally implied you were in bed with a homicidal maniac) and then points out they never even saw the letter.

Incidentally, the only place we've seen this letter is on [the Mediabistro] today. It never arrived in any offices associated with New York magazine or Bruce Wasserstein.

Wait a second, so first, the Brown family has to sit through a long article about Judith Regan's eating habits (or lack thereof). Then, they realize the author has suggested that they sanctioned the hypothetical ramblings of Nicole's alleged murderer. And finally, it turns out that their scary-sounding letter to NY Mag never even made it there because the messenger who was supposed to deliver it "got high" instead??

Yeah…we understand that "bitches have feelings too," but we're going to have to side with the Brown family on this one.

Start spreading the news…New York magazine apparently likes employing gays, writing about gay and lesbian issues, and sleeping with men, yet doesn't particularly like providing its non-hetero employees with domestic partner benefits.

This is particularly surprising in light of New York's liberal/progressive leanings, prominent gay staffers (including its homosexual editor-in-chief, Adam Moss) and the fact that pretty much every other rag has stepped up to the gay/lesbian plate.

Their reasoning, according to an official spokeswoman? "It's complicated."

And yet, as Radar reports, many prominent publications (even those with much more conservative leadership) have managed to navigate the "daunting thicket of complex laws and regulations" to accommodate their employees needs:

[M]ost of the nation's top media companies, including such conservative outlets as Fox and Dow Jones, have found a way to accommodate their gay and unmarried employees. In New York, according to the National Lesbian and Gay Journalists Association, the New York Post, the New York Daily News, the New York Times, Newsday, Time Out, and the Village Voice all allow unmarried employees to include their long-term partners on their health care and dental plans.

So do ABC, NBC, CBS, the Associated Press, Reuters, Condé Nast, Hearst, Meredith, Bloomberg, Knight-Ridder, McGraw-Hill, the Tribune Co., the Washington Post, the Los Angeles Times, the Chicago Tribune, National Geographic, Spin, Vibe, and, yes, Radar.

Fortunately, we know just the way to remedy this…enlist the help of celebrity activist couples like Brangelina, Howard Stern and Beth Ostrosky and Charlize Theron and Stuart Townsend, who have all publicly declared they "won't get married" until gay people can.

Suddenly, lo and behold, you'll have throngs of closeted celebrities and commitment-phobes alike pledging that they won't get hitched until gay New York mag employees get their benefits.

And with all those single thirty and forty-somethings in the city, it's only a matter of time before (a) the NYT writes another article about the growing population of spinsters and (b) New York mag finally takes a cue from those gay-friendly pioneers over at Dirt Rider and Shotgun News.

• Brandon Davis sings us a song of the firecrotch. Like we don't all know that one already. Psha. [Page Six]

• No, Jared Kushner does not want his staff to have crabs. No, he is not aware that 40% of them already do. [VV]

• Oh, and speaking of NYO, they're playing softball against New York mag somewhere in Inwood tonight — for all you "journoati stalkerati" out there. (If you can figure out where, it's totally worth it just for the very rare of late David Amsden sighting.)

• Our roommate two months ago: "Hey, have you guys heard of this thing called YouTube?" The news, today: "Hey, have you guys heard of this thing called YouTube?" [AP]

• If only posters could actually vote. And if only they could vote for gays. [FBNY]

Today asks New York magazine:

And, after much research, we learned:

What Makes Jared Run? [Geoffrey Gray, NYM]

We were really into this New York magazine piece today about how New Yorkers are supposed to pretend they don't care about talking to celebs. We especially appreciated the anecdote about a regular Joe whose kid just happened to start playing with Conan O'Brien's kid in the sandbox. (Do they really still have sandboxes?) Well, like we were saying, we were really enjoying this article … until we hit the Gawker Stalker coverage.

No offense to the Gawks, but for New York to start covering the Stalker map now after CNN and George Clooney and everyone else under the sun have already had full out spoon-in-the-mouth spasms over it — let's just say it's a little disappointing.

Though, we did like their little paparazzi interviews and the map they put together themselves of "where to spot a celeb." They even tell you where you can find "nobody cares about me" celebs like Sara Jessica Parker and Julianne Moore. Oh, and speaking of Moore, she was also quoted on Page Six today:

Moore also says she prefers life in New York. "There's less pressure in New York. Nobody bothers me there. It's not a one-industry town."

Well, nobody bothers her yet. But New York seems to be doing everything in its power to put a stop to that immediately.

White Knuckles [Page Six]
Star Map [New York Magazine]

In the July 24 issue of New York magazine, an article on Tom Suozzi, written by Stephen Rodrick, ridiculed the candidate for New York State governor. One line from that article read as such:

"Meet Tom Suozzi, the perfect candidate for governor of New York in any other year than this one."

Granted, it's not the most concrete sentence we've ever read, but who are we to judge? This particular New York article did not show support for Tom Suozzi. Whatever. No biggie, right? Wrong. Suozzi's campaign manager decided it would be a great idea to use this quote for a flyer promoting Suozzi. Well, not the whole quote, of course … just the part that makes the quote completely different from what was actually written.

The promotional page has NYM naming Suozzi "the perfect candidate for governor." Minus the "except he's not" part. Needless to say, New York is pissed, and they're demanding Suozzi toss all the flyers which promote this false support for the candidate. The political camp's response?

"The Suozzi campaign is proud of our candidate's life and work," said Campaign Manager Paul Rivera. "And we believe that Tom Suozzi is the perfect candidate for governor, in this or any other year."

Which is fine, of course … except New York magazine obviously doesn't agree — and saying that they do is more or less libel. Manipulating the press and then hoping nobody would notice? Totally something the perfect governor of New York would do. (Note to Suozzi's campaign party: that was sarcasm, and not intended to support Suozzi for governor.)

Suozzi ad only half true: mag [Daily News]