Last November, the Washington City Paper's Dave McKenna wrote an excellent takedown of Redskins owner and well-known bastard Dan Snyder. It was a textbook example of killing a subject with simple facts. Now, proving its accuracy: Snyder demands McKenna's firing.

The Newsweek- Daily Beast merger officially went through today. And, a tipster says, TDB already told "most of the editorial and production assistants they've hired the past few months" that "their jobs are over." Journalism's rough! Know more? Email me.

Oprah Winfrey appointed Maria Shriver to guest edit a "poetry issue" of O magazine. Does the former newscaster/first lady of California have an MFA in creative writing we don't know about? And what's Demi Moore got to do with it?

In your feuding Tuesday media column: Bill Keller regards Rupert Murdoch's legacy, David Shuster is launching his own news site, the Harper's union battle grows ever more ridiculous, and ignoring Al Jazeera grows ever more difficult.

Laser-eyed managementspeak cult guru Seth Godin has done it again: he's Unleashed the Idea Virus of Purple Cow Meatball Sundaes. No, wait; we mean he's now working without a traditional publisher. Will the unbearable book business ever be the same?

After getting some flack for a rather homogenous cover of white actresses last year, Vanity Fair's new Hollywood issue is mixing things up. There are 1.5 African-Americans on the cover! That's up from .25 African-Americans last year.

In a new interview with Harper's Bazaar UK, the expat actress says that people mock her and her lifestyle website/newsletter Goop because "[a]ny time you do anything with any degree of sincerity, people make fun of you."

In your stuffed Monday media column: Tina Brown is making power moves, Hearst is making Hachette employees nervous, a PBS show may get canceled, Phish fans invade the media, and The Atlantic Wire gets a new boss.

Hearst's long-awaited purchase of French media conglomerate Lagardere's international magazine business is finally official. The purchase price: $887 million. The upshot: Hearst may now be the most powerful decider of the future of the magazine industry.

Now that Comcast is officially taking over NBC Universal today, the cable company has unveiled a horrible new logo for the famed broadcaster. The response hasn't been too kind. But we know you can come up with something better!

In your venturesome Friday media column: Jeff Zucker's rumored to have big plans, People StyleWatch is insanely successful, Demand Media's coming to buy your blog, and Mark Whitaker heads to CNN.

In October, NPR fired Juan Williams. For three months NPR conducted a "review," and Ellen Weiss, the SVP who fired Williams, was forced out earlier this month. Finally, the details of her dismissal are coming out. They're troubling.

CNN has retracted a story that claimed there was an investigation into the decision to put Wikileaker Bradley Manning on suicide watch.

In your ice-encased Thursday media column: Sam Zell is done with you media types, Comcast wouldn't dream of touching NBC News, rabbis (in the pocket of George Soros, commie Jew) hate Glenn Beck, and The Daily is coming next week.

Rodale, publisher of Men's Health and employer of serial plagiarist David Zinczenko, explains why ripping writers' bylines off their work, and slapping Zinczenko's on, is OK: "The byline doesn't take credit for the work, but serves as an overarching tag."

Fox & Friends backslapper Steve Doocy burned Politico's Ben Smith big time today by reading anti-Ben Smith blog comments live on air. Related, there's a blog comment here that says "Steve's an anal wart." Is that "relevant?" Politics is complicated.

New York Times editor Bill Keller has spilled the secrets about his paper's dealings with Wikileaks and Julian Assange in a new Times magazine piece. Upshot: Assange is a weird sissy nerd, and he probably eats boogers.

Last year, we caught Men's Health editor Dave Zinczenko reusing covers. Turns out that's not the only way Zinczenko recycles content: He's been ripping other writers' bylines off old Men's Health articles and passing them off as his own.

In your yet-another-synonym-for-"snowy" Wednesday media column: HuffPo no longer cool, The Daily's latest launch date, Demand Media's distressingly popular, Michael Cohen leaves the Village Voice, Newsday hires people, and Brian Lehrer's a reasonable guy.

Today Page Six referred to Anderson Cooper's boyfriend Benjamin Maisani as his "companion." Previously the gossip column called him a "friend." An upgrade! Next week they'll be "roommates." But at least we're on track to calling a spade a spade.