Bow-tied screamer Matthew Winkler, the chief enforcer of The (Insane) Bloomberg Way—the style guide that sternly discouraged journalists from starting a sentence with "But"—had an op-ed in the WSJ this weekend. Check it out, everyone!

They've already been subjected to a wild animal baby, hipsters in a mud pit, and some dark black and white shit they probably smoke opium to in France, or whatever. Now this. "Stop thinking"? I think your ad sucks. At least they got some football pictures in there.
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Orange County Register sports columnist Mark Whicker would like to apologize for phoning in his column on Tuesday. He realizes now that child kidnapping/rape/enslavement cases are more than easy pegs for sports listicles.

"The Moscow News: Things hard to explain, in a language you understand." Mmm hmm. Since this apparently didn't sink in last week: No. [Adfreak]

Whoops! Professional PC John Hodgman makes much of his prodigious nerd skills, but he just mistakenly "Tweeted" his cell phone number to his 82,493 Twitter followers.

Just to make sure everyone is extremely clear on who did what here: the World Wildlife Fund is not just an innocent victim of a bad rogue ad agency in this whole 9/11 ad fiasco.

Cablevision, which foolishly bought Newsday for $650 million and promptly began running it into the ground (more so), is now setting money alight by rejecting newspaper ads from Cablevision competitor Verizon. Cablevision is unskilled at newspaper management. [NYT]

Sometimes it really does make sense for a famous brand to change its name. It happened to Uncle Adolf's Old-Tyme KKKandy, and now it's happening to Radio Shack. Too bad the new name is even worse.

Shoot, a publicist for R. Couri Hay's PR firm sent out an email that had mistakes in it. Probably bad ones! Now the firm has been forced to send another, more grovelling email apologizing for said mistakes. Read it below!

In your whopping Thursday media column: South Africa's president wins a libel case, Creative Loafing's tenuous existence, RBI's selling everything, and the latest problem with saving the New York Times.

Police say that boxer Arturo Gatti, who was found dead last weekend, was strangled in his sleep by his 23 year-old ex-stripper wife. As if that wasn't unpleasant enough, Perez Hilton put up some other dude's picture on Gatti's "R.I.P." post.

This is what happens when magazines die too fast. Conde Nast folded Men's Vogue last October. But don't worry, Men's Vogue subscribers! We're hooking you up with a subscription to Portfolio. Wait.

Reports have surfaced that David Letterman offered yet another apology to Sarah Palin at this afternoon's taping of his show set to air later tonight. He couldn't have made a bigger mistake.

Out of all the celebrities to resemble, North Korean loonmonster Kim Jong Il would not be the first choice of most guys (it would be this guy). But one dude does resemble him, and fooled the world media. Accidentally.

So this Tom Tancredo speechwriter/director at Tancredo's PAC got in a bit of trouble (arrested) a couple years back for calling a black woman "nigger" and then karate chopping her. Obviously, this two-year-old incident was just a youthful indiscretion. But guess who doesn't get to go to UVA anymore!

Hey, state legislators: when the gay marriage bill comes up for a vote, you might want to show up for work. "'A few people who would have voted for it were not present,'" Watters said. It failed by two votes. [Globe]

Skinny New York mayoral wannabe Anthony Weiner is talking trash about Jon Stewart, maybe because he secretly thinks Jon had a rendezvous with his girlfriend, back in the day, hmmm???

The Philadelphia Inquirer is a bankrupt paper run by a greedy Republican flack. They're going to save themselves by hiring America's most unpopular and/ or idiotic Republicans as columnists:

Now the government says that it's not even going to release the photos of the FAA Terror Plane that buzzed Manhattan last week and scared the shit out of everyone, on direct orders from Obama.

Oh. Sweet. Jesus. The Somali pirates have gone and done it now: they've hijacked a ship with 20 Americans onboard. This will not end well.