The Los Angeles Times might have had more luck questioning the mayor's trustworthiness if it hadn't spelled it "crediblity [sic]" in a front-page headline. We'd wince in sympathy even if the paper wasn't bankrupt to boot. [LA Observed]

Media news! Former Gawker editor Gabriel Snyder is now the Executive Editor of Newsweek Digital. First they join Tumblr, then they hire a Gawker editor—Newsweek is the hip newsweekly!

In your party-oriented Wednesday media column: the NYT launches a nightlife column, Julie Chen prepares to take on The View, ads masquerading as news in L.A., and One Man: Two Identical Letters to the Editor.

Once upon a time, building computers was as solitary an affair as using one, and a smart executive named Steve Jobs exploited this cloistered secrecy for fun and profit. But Apple's hermetic seal has broken, and there's no restoring it.

The same morning the New York Times posts their monster magazine profile of Politico newsletter savant Mike Allen, Politico management announces a high-profile hiring! Crazy! Washington influentials, please enjoy Maggie Haberman. And a VandeHarris memo!

You, the average sports-loathing homosexual Gawker reader, might be surprised to hear that as of late 2007, ESPN Magazine pap merchant Rick Reilly was the highest-paid writer in the country. But he's finally shutting up (a little). Thank god.

Oh boy—Michael Calderone is... teasing the upcoming Mark Leibovich story on the hellish "journalism-alternative" sweatshop that is Politico. On Twitter. The big story is about Mike Allen, as all of these things are.

Openly gay Iraq vet and activist Dan Choi chained himself to the White House fence again, and was arrested, again. Police chased away the reporters trying to cover the demonstration, which is, if not unprecedented, at least unusual.

In your pleasant Tuesday media column: Glenn Beck vs. Joe Klein, a stranded-in-the-airport magazine, Dave Eggers wants to marry print and live in Never-Neverland with it, and Les Moonves struggles through another year of penurious wages.

Forbes is seeking to put together a top-flight team of media bloggers! They offer bloggers the chance to write for "millions of Forbes readers." In return, bloggers get no money. Sound good?

The lead story in the New York Times Magazine's wellness issue this past weekend: "Does working out really help you lose weight?" A better question: Why doesn't the New York Times want to tell you the fitness truth?

In your comment-free Monday media column: Tracy Morgan sits at the fancy table, rumors of a departure from Vogue, the WSJ targets NYT advertisers, everyone wants student newspapers to shut up, and black reporters are disappearing fast.

Magazines are in trouble. Fashion is expensive, but we're broke. Americans aren't as purty as the celebrities are. Not to worry, impoverished unattractive celebrity-worshiping American magazine consumers! A magazine just for you is a wild success.

Comcast and Kelsey Grammer are is among the big names backing RightNetwork, a new network that "focuses on entertainment with Pro-America, Pro-Business, Pro-Military sensibilities." They've even been embedded with the Tea Party in preparation for a launch this summer.

On Friday Palin lied — she took a quote from an Obama speech out of context and used it to imply that the President doesn't like America as much as real Americans. Now the AP have lent her their credence.

Today Tomorrow is Record Store Day! To celebrate, Spin posted its list of America's "15 Best Indie Record Stores." Too bad it's the same exact list as last year. They did bother to change the date. That was nice. [Baltimore Sun]

What was on Fox Business when the biggest finance story in months—the civil lawsuit filed against Goldman Sachs by the SEC—broke this morning? An interview with Tila Tequila on "how she turned her fame into a business." [BI]

One of Bobby Jindal's aides, and her boyfriend, got beaten up last Friday. There was a rumor that the attack occurred because the pair were wearing Sarah Palin pins. It seemed to have been confirmed by the police. Except not.

Andrew McCarthy—Weekend at Bernie's Andrew McCarthy, not "the crypto-fascist—is now a travel writer forThe Atlantic. He joins Liz Phair. See? There are awesome magazine gigs available for people who didn't go to some fancy journalism school!

In the matter of "Paul Krugman vs. Andrew Ross Sorkin: Who Is Right and Who Is a Liar Jerk?" New York Times public editor Clark Hoyt has finally stepped in. And somebody's lying to him, too.