Somehow the travails of Buzz Bissinger v. Will Leitch, Jared Paul Stern v. Ron Burkle, Page Six v. Vanessa Grigoriadis, Cathy Horyn v. Giorgio Armani, Dale Peck v. Rick Moody, and Leonard Wieseltier v. Andrew Sullivan get boiled down to what’s going on between Lauren Conrad and Heidi Montag:

“On the MTV ‘reality’ show The Hills, Lauren Conrad and Heidi Montag have created careers out of hating each other, aided and abetted by Ms. Montag’s boyfriend, a deliberately slimy dentist’s son. But it’s hard to believe that the women would be perpetuating their feud if it wasn’t for the cameras that follow them around all day, or the Us Weekly covers that their fight has led to.” [NYO]