We don't usually delve into the NY Press too deeply, because the shock value gets unshocking real fast, but in all fairness Matt Taibbi's takedown of Christopher Hitchens and the state of journalism today is hilarious. Pissed off by Hitchie's recent Michael Moore slam, Taibbi's not buying the idea that journalists are much more than corporate mouthpieces, Hitchens included:

Such is the pretense of modern journalism, that we are to be lectured on courage by a man who has had his intellectual face lifted so many times, he can't close his eyes without opening his mouth. By a man who, if the Soviets had won the Cold War, would be writing breathless features on Eduard Shevardnadze for three bucks a word in Komsomolskaya Vanity Fair ("Georgia on His Mind: Edik Speaks Out." Photos by Annie Liebowitz...).

Shoveling Coal For Satan [NY Press]