· WSJ media reporter Matthew Rose is getting booted upstairs. What the hell is going on in media reporter land? Does it suck that bad? (At the same time, WWD's Jacob Bernstein is going to New York mag, and the Observer's Sridhar Pappu is going off to the sports world.) [Jacob Bernstein]
· But they don't matter anyway, according to Russ Smith: media columnists have no teeth and play insider games because they all have complicated ties. (What? That's nutty talk!) [Russ Smith]
· The NYT's music critic Neil Strauss is reportedly ghost-writing Jenna Jameson's autobiography, and the Times is pissed off about it, although they say "We would not agree that the editors went 'insane,' or ballistic" — certainly one of the most hilarious sentences to come out of the NYT's spokespeople's office. [Rush and Molloy]