In your flippant Friday media column: Americans don't know who to trust, a money man gives up on the NYT, Conde Nast is spying on you, and Chris Dovi really got screwed.

In a new survey, 40% of Americans say they trust PBS "a great deal," making it the most trusted broadcast network. You'll never guess what #2 is.


Scott Galloway of activist hedge fund Harbinger Capital—who spent the last couple years trying to take over the NYT—is quitting the NYT board. Mostly because he realized it was a lost cause. This is not related to that pig-in-a-poke gay sex harass case his partner and his wife are facing.


Good news, member of Conde Nast management: The Conde Nast anti-fraud hotline has already snared a couple of Conde Nast employees who were taking bribes or stealing office supplies or whatever. Snitching will save the media.


Let us now revisit just how deeply Style Weekly reporter Chris Dovi got screwed when he got fired for mistakenly emailing a blind motivational speaker's publicist expressing his exasperation about that same stupid publicist, and calling the guy in question "a blind fucker." He meant to send that to his editor. Then his paper ended up firing him for it. His paper's management sucks balls. Ball sucker fuckers! And: "My own father is disabled," says Dovi. "He's blind in one eye. He had a stroke that left him paralyzed on one side." You have our sympathy, dude.