Last week's guest-host Andrew Krucoff has compiled a mega-report on traffic of New York media websites. He is now forgiven for absconding with my Gawker Stalker reports from last week.

NYT reporter Judith Miller (AKA Dick Cheney's loveslave) had a nice splashy story on page A10 yesterday, quoting lots of unnamed sources and even mentioning her favorite wacky Iraqi, that tool Ahmad Chalabi. What gives? We thought she was getting busted. Sad.

The spread-legged granddaughters of Chrissy Snow have taken over TV, claims Alessandra Stanley in today's NYT. She opens with: "It is hard to pinpoint exactly when it became safe to be a stupid slut on television." (We would have opted for "It's," instead of the formal "It is." Still, we're thinking she deserves some sort of award.)

Jousting at his favorite windmill, Daily News gossip boy Lloyd Grove tags Page Six as the bitches of Fox News's Bill McCuddy. Get this: Grove claims that McCuddy emails Page Six gossip sometimes, and sometimes they even print it!!! DEVELOPING!!! Oh wait, no it's not.
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We harsh on NYT Boldface Names columnist Joyce Wadler pretty much every Thursday when her column appears. Most weeks, she makes us crazy.

· Why does tabloid editorial queen Bonnie Fuller make the huge bucks? "I ve always found that women love to look at cute guys," says Bonnie, of her installation of scantily-clad man pics in the Star. It's that sort of editorial insight that sets her apart, don't you agree? [WWD]
· InStyle, celebrating its tenth anniversary, wants credit for celebrity journalism. Take the credit, take the blame. [AP]
· New York mag ad pages up 10% from last year: editor Adam Moss sneakily skewing the famously trashy magazine toward intelligence. Ick. [Crain's]

A genius, nutty Princeton student analyzed nine years of New Yorker fiction, and found it, well, a little boyish, East Coasty, and insular. Heh. Really?

On Monday, New York mag will publish a long feature by Alexandra Polier. (Earlier this year, various media outlets claimed that Polier had had an affair with Presidential candidate John Kerry.)

You know, people, I do care about other things than human excrement. But of course all of New York is always concerned about sanitation at Conde Nast:

The anonymous operator of Cablenewser, one of our absolute favorite websites on the whole stupid internot, came out in today's New York Times. Cablenewser, for those who don't know, is a really sick ratings- and bias-obsessed cable news (duh) weblog. Its mysterious writer? A badass 18-year-old college student in Maryland. Teen media nerds are the future! We salute you, young Brian Stelter.
The Ultimate Cable News Guru, When Not in Class [NYT]
CableNewser [CN]

The malicious fashionistas at The Daily are running a "who'll replace Graydon Carter at Vanity Fair" poll — not that, you know, he's going anywhere soon. If ever — he could be undead! The vampire editor, now at Conde Nast for his 204th year!

Because of the current resounding silence about the Shocking Scandal surrounding Vanity Fair editor Graydon Carter (he did... something or other), we've asked our Prime Conde Nast Operative to file a rigorously-reported slice of what life is like on the inside. Contains exclusive interview with Vanity Fair receptionist!!!

Judith Miller who what huh?
Judith Miller, NYT reporter, has been a global-ops war junkie for a long time. Even back in the 80s she took part in the US propaganda campaign against Libya. It seems she's gone even farther these last few years — whipping up hysteria in favor of the invasion of Iraq.

The good word is that Chris Lehmann, who works deep in the hellish swamps of our nation's capital as the deputy editor of Washington Post Book World, is the new acquisition in Adam Moss's shiny cabinet of curios. He'll be coming on as a features editor at New York shortly. This certainly raises the question: how many editors does one weekly magazine need? (It's actually a koan, more than a question. Ponder away. I certainly am.)

With the release of She Comes First, the man's guide to cunnilingus, we're expecting a slew of trend pieces in all the publications. Let's just get this out of the way and write the headlines now, eh?

A New York Press insider writes about recent troubles at the free weekly and the unfortunate cancellation of their annual intern-grabfest, "Summer Guide Party."

Gawker's in-house gossip and data analysts teamed up to study reader trust of New York area gossip columnists. The results are presented here in pretty colors and sumptuous curves. Lloyd Grove is what statisticians call an "out liar."

1. You Can't Smoke 'em If You Don't Join 'em: The East Side Barkeeps vs. Community Board 3 Battle Royale takes an interesting turn as the Villager reports local bar proliferator, David McWater, is running for council chair on the "Disciplinarian" ticket. [via ebway]
2. Pugilist Prize: New Yorker Editor David Remnick vs. Stanford Professor David M. Kennedy in a heated debate on whether the public is too stupid for serious journalism. Remnick says yes while Kennedy bitch-slaps him with a Thomas Jefferson roundhouse. Jeff Jarvis scores the fight: Decision to Kennedy. [BuzzMachine]
3. Who's Dishin' Who?: Elisa Lipsky-Karasz vs. Kristina Stewart in the trash-talking contest of Harper Bazaar Editor Glenda Bailey. This isn't really a fight as much as it is a tale of two sides which was hypothesized here earlier. Elisa and Kristina swear it's not them and reiterate the fact a dozen or more others have left too since the beginning of the year. God knows (or maybe doesn't care) what the actual truth is but let's get 'em all in a police line-up and see how they respond under the *hot* lights.

Who else will defend embroiled Vanity Fair editor Graydon Carter regarding the accusations that his magazine's editorial content was for sale to Tinseltown bidders offering the most producer credits? West Coast blog/bot chronicler "Sacramento is the New New York" channels the advice of legendary movie producer Robert Evans whose lifestory was made into the documentary "The Kid Stays In The Picture" with the assistance of Graydon Carter.

1. Usually we don't recommend whoring yourself out for sold-out concert tickets, but the Magnetic Fields really don't perform all that often. So, what are you waiting for? Drop your pants and get to work.
2. Learn how NYC subways went from elegant, art-deco masterpieces to dirty, rat-infested, health-hazards as author Tony Robbins takes you on a Subway Style Tour through the New York Transit Museum.
3. Hear Times critic Christopher Lehmann-Haupt chat it up with former Times managing editor, the Art-man, the Gelb-ster, Artie-G, aka Arthur Gelb .
4. Aural Sex 1: Seduction by Voice & Storytelling. Learn how to talk dirty at the Museum of Sex. Seniors/students get a discounted rate. Ew.