In light of certain arguments currently taking place on the internet, we would like to issue a gentle reminder of a fact: Twitter is public.

"In an age of sexting and Snapchat, of 'Girls Gone Wild' and friends with benefits..." Ruth Marcus' plug-and-play style of vacuous columnizing makes her the Thomas Friedman of boring sex scolds.

The New York Post will have to settle or try their case: their lawyers just lost a motion to dismiss the libel action brought against the paper for running a front-page photograph wrongfully identifying Salaheddin Barhoum and Yassine Zaimi as the Boston Marathon bombers.

"Frozen In a Niche?" is the headline of today's Maureen Dowd column, as well as the headline of Maureen Dowd's career.

Shane Smith, the burly head of the VICE empire, is now worth several hundred million dollars, thanks to his company's peerless ability to sell counterculture cool to mainstream corporations. Don't mention that to Shane, though. It's a sensitive topic.

“Diversity was a leading motif for ceremony that was hosted by Ellen DeGeneres, a happy-go-lucky lesbian who spent most of the evening in a tuxedo.”

Television news in the internet age may exist solely so field reporters can put themselves into harms way in order to emphasize the danger of inclement weather. Enter NBC's Miguel Almaguer, who had to be rescued yesterday from a mudslide east of Los Angeles.

Evil cartoon villain Charles Koch, one half of the Amazing Billionaire Koch Bros., does not give a lot of interviews. You can hardly find a photo of the guy. But one outlet has landed a coveted Charles Koch interview "get"—the Wichita Business Journal. How did they do what so many other news outlets could not?

The original freelancer assigned to the revenge-motivated New York Observer takedown of New York Attorney General Eric Schneiderman said in an interview with the New York Times today that he was hired straight out of an ice cream shop and quit when he figured out all the paper wanted was a smear piece.

On Tuesday, the desiccated ruin of the New York Observer published a bizarre, hilariously facile takedown of New York Attorney General Eric Schneiderman, accusing him of using his office to wage politically motivated prosecutions.

Page Six is reporting that Ronan Farrow, the freshly installed MSNBC host, has warned reporters who plan to attend an awards ceremony at Manhattan’s Princeton Club, where Farrow will be honored with the Cronkite Award for Excellence in Exploration and Journalism, not to inquire about his father, Woody Allen, or any other “personal” issues:

"The Cold War was a unique event that pitted two global ideologies, two global superpowers, each with globe-spanning nuclear arsenals... Indeed, the world was divided into a chessboard of red and black, and who controlled each square mattered." High school history paper, or Thomas Friedman column?

New York Times Public Editor Margaret Sullivan weighed in today on DealBook editor Andrew Ross Sorkin’s unmasking of the titanically unfunny Twitter account @GSElevator, which purported to publish conversations overheard in the office elevators of investment bank Goldman Sachs. The bank was so concerned with account, Sullivan writes, that it banned talking in elevators:

The front page of today's New York Times has astonishing news for a nation accustomed to life on an eternal war footing: Defense secretary Chuck Hagel has proposed shrinking the United States military to a size, as the subheadline puts it, "Equal to That of 1940." Online, where the subheads are more expansive, the paper elaborates:

It's not even possible to get mad at the Baltimore Sun now. The Baltimore Sun is a nursing home where newspapering goes to die, or to sink into terminal urine-soaked frailty and confusion. Yesterday it announced it had received the commitment papers for City Paper, the city's alternative weekly, b. 1977 – d. TK But Soon.

Did you know that the Washington Post reprints health and science press releases, verbatim? A spokesperson for the paper says the Post will stop doing that, right away.

Last week, DealBook editor Andrew Ross Sorkin launched a new running feature called #ApologyWatch, with which Sorkin and co-apology-watcher Dov Seidman plan to monitor and comment on the “apology theater” of corporate America. First up: Andrew Ross Sorkin and Dov Seidman!

"'The only thing better than the smell of a new car is the smell of a new house,' Ms. Desiderio said. 'Just the 1 percent of buyers seems to want old and antique.'" Every last person who is quoted in last Sunday's New York Times real estate section should be jailed.

Even the most prestigious historically black colleges and universities are facing financial struggles these days. They would love to bolster their ranks by luring in more white students. But how?

Former New York Times editor Bill Keller's announcement that he's leaving the paper for a news startup is a smart move. It's also the final act in Keller's long history of proving that the New York Times is not as important as it once was.