The New York Post's tech writer (last seen stalking a Google founder's girlfriend) has Hard! Hitting! News! about YouTube:

Bad news for New York's young learners. And David Amsden.

• LAT editor sticks it to The Man; refuses to make cuts requested by Tribune overlords. [NYT]
• Member of CBS Evening News' elderly demographic likes Katie Couric. [AP]
• City claims recycling has declined because no one buys newspapers anymore, but that fails to explain where people are putting the eight million Metros shoved at them as they enter the subway. [NYS]
• Dick-licking victim Mandy Stadtmiller wins "Funniest Reporter in New York" contest. The jokes, they write themselves. Or at least they're gonna have to for this one, because we've got nothing. [NY1]

"Teacher Maimed Saving Kids," "Terrorists Kill Two," "Day of Tears," "KILLED THIS BABY."

We can't recall the source of this anecdote but it concerns and old college roommate, a regular reader of the comic strip Nancy. When asked why he persisted in that habit the roommate replied, "Because one day it's going to be funny, and I want to be there." In any event, Sean Delonas of the Post: Is there possibly a less-talented cartoonist working today? We had to laugh when we saw this "specially commissioned" work of art in Page Six: the Magazine (making it the first time we've laughed at anything related to Delonas): Who "commissioned" it, the same person Delonas has the incriminating photos of? Honestly, does anyone out there find him amusing at all? E-mail us or respond in the comments; we're genuinely curious.

It may come as something of a shock to those of us who feel that, like the poor, Cindy Adams we have always had with us. But it's not true: the Post gossip dowager celebrates her twenty-fifth anniversary with that paper tomorrow. Today's column is a riot of self-celebration, and, to be fair, she deserves it. Since she's already pre-empted our usual jokes (she's old, her "predictions" are ridiculous restatements of the conventional wisdom, Steve Dunleavy has a significant problem with alcohol) with witty self-effacement, we will simply offer her our fond regards on the milestone. In what other town could a column like this run for twenty-five years? Only in New York, kids, only in New York.

These two items didn't actually appear next to each other in today's Post, but it kind of strikes us as a missed opportunity.

More in sorrow than in joy (oh, who are we kidding) Keith Kelly reports this morning on the dismissal of the Daily News' Andrea Dove, vice president of classified ads. Kelly gives a roll call of recent News departures, both voluntary and less so: Editor-in-Chief Michael Cooke, executive vice president Ira Ellenthal, investigative reporter Russ Buettner, feature writer Caitlin Kelly, food writer Isabel Forgang, and Michael Segell, Rebecca Louie, Breanne Heldman, Jami Bernard, Graham Fuller, Michele Ingrassia, Michelle Leifer and Celia McGee.

Time's cover story is quirky and untimely. It asks the hard-charging question: "Does God Want You to Be Rich?" We won't give you the answer, but we can only hope that the nation's bosses read it.

Maybe we're being too harsh; after all, it's not like you can find this image anywhere else.

[T]here has been a complete scientific study - from Mount Sinai research that shows that at least 70 percent of the thousands who labored at Ground Zero as first responders reported, and proved, that they had awful trouble breathing or worse.

SHE LOOKED LIKE A LITTLE GIRL WHO HAD TO GO POTTY [NYP]

From the New York Post, today:

While the Times may not be sure how rap-savvy their readers are, the Post has a better idea: They know four of the most famous songs of the genre, if the graphic above is any indication. Appended to a piece about the rapping analyst, this graphic proves that Photoshop jokes aren't the sole province of websites looking to fill space on a day with no news. Still, we don't want to be to hard on the Post: they also gave us this.

Are the New York Post and the New York Daily News embarrassed about getting scooped by a blogger? Both tabloids splashed Katie Couric's Photoshopped photo across their pages this morning, 24 hours after TVNewser first posted a story about it...But neither paper bothered to mention that the photos first surfaced on this blog. Are they embarrassed to credit a blog?

The New York Post breaks the Couric-Photoshop story wide open, and what they find will shake you to your core:

Did you happen to catch yesterday's Post coverage of the "25 sexiest New Yorkers"? (Oddly, only 15 are available on line.) Well, one of them happens to be Leigh Lezark! Sadly, the Post notes that a backlash is brewing against the hipster DJ. We don't know where they may have heard that, but we're pretty sure about where that "cold... stare" came from.

The images you see before you are pages 23 and 27 of today's New York Post. The close reader might note that they're the exact same story, the only difference being the images used. Page 23 prominently features Getty stock footage of a party girl and a smaller image of Councilwoman Melinda Katz (who looks pissed about something; page twenty-seven gives pride of place to Katz, while offering a more diminutive version of Getty party girl). We understand that fuckups happen; you need merely refresh this page more than once a day to see at least seven. Still, we can't help but wonder: Is this some kind of Post focus group? If the question is whether readers would prefer the hottie with the drink or the surly City Councilperson, well, we're gonna vote hottie every time. Especially now that Eva Moskowitz is out of politics.

One of the sadder parts of Alex Rodriguez signing with the Yankees instead of the Boston Red Sox was the loss of the inevitable New York Post giant-type headline "A-HOL." Fortunately, the Yanks also picked up pitcher Chien-Ming Wang, and his recent heroics on the field have allowed the Post to come up with gems like the following:

• Say what you will about the Post, they still give great headline. [NYP]
• They also can't help but tweak rival Mort Zuckerman. [NYP]
• Nor can they resist a dig at the Times. [NYP]
• But at the end of the day, it's nice to know that they'll still bring you the news that really matters. [NYP]