2,300 years ago, a giant meteorite crash off the coast of New York may or may not have caused a tsunami. Why should you care? Well, if it happened once, the Deep Impact scenario can happen again.

What can we expect from the Doomsday scenario?

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We barely got done writing this post about geniuses in the media comparing their situations to real-world crises — Kent Brownridge calling the Jen-Brad split his "tsunami"; Jon Bryne calling his ex-publisher's decision to sell off magazines a "hostage crisis" — when we found out it's not only media types who make horrible word choices, but also private equity guys!

Here's investment fund Starwood Capital chief Barry Sternlicht, who's been snapping up luxury brands like Taittinger champagne and crystal maker Baccarat, describing his current moves given the economy's collapse: He's "just waiting out the tsunami. [...] That's what this is, a financial tsunami." Nice one, dickhead!

• Fox News remembers the tsunami, and how they were too busy fighting the War on Christmas to cover it. [Fox]

• As if Entertainment Weekly subscribers don't have it bad enough, they were recently forced to sit through a focus group with Jon Friedman. [Mediaweb]

• Primedia gets a Queer Eye make-over, and renames itself Prism Business Media Inc. [Folio]

• President Bush calls New York Times and Washington Post editors in for meetings. While some might think this relates to media censorship, our guess is that Bush is probably asking for advice on his iPod playlist. [WaPo]

• The New York Times promoting their own staff writers? Psha! You must be kidding. [Gawker, NYT]