Posted Wednesday September 6, 2006 at 05:24 PM
We have been challenged today. Apologies. Here is everything you need to know today, if you don't already know it:
- Katie Couric was on the news last night. Okay if you don't know that, we can't help you. By the way, 13.59 million people watched. [TVNewser]
- Sumner Redstone swings axe, balls: Tim Arango has the backstory of the Freston
resignation firing. Summer is over, but Sumner ain't goin' nowhere. [NYP]
- Death By Sting Ray: Could It Happen Here? We're waiting for the cable nets to run with that one — complete with logo — but in the meantime Slate's Explainer is on the case. [Slate]
- MSNBC Today: All midterms, all the time. Look, an awesome map! Wow, Canada's a big state. [MSNBC]
- How to master, dominate, and obliterate all others on Google: With your name. Except if your name happens to be Shiloh or Suri, because they're kind of hard to beat. [Collision Detection]
- Everything's coming up Rosie! Rosie's back and bigger than ever, and Babs, Joy and Hasselbeck better like it because they ain't got no choice in the matter. It's tough-sounding bad-grammar day at ETP! [WaPo]
- Jeffrey Epstein, finally fit to print: The NYT finally acknowledges alleged sexual-assaulting financier Jeffrey Epstein in its august pages, weeks and weeks after the scandal broke. Their focus: Preferential treatment he's receiving, preferring to gloss over the actual accusations. Per DB's John Carney: "Are ink-and-paper journalists so convinced that the "cover-up is worse than the crime" that they don't care so much about the crimes anymore?" [Dealbreaker]
- Que Suri Suri: Who's a little mop-topped VF cover girl? You are! Yes, you! Sorry, babies are cute, especially when they turn out to be real, ish. [VF]
- But seriously, what's with the rug? Everyone agrees: Suri's hair is weird. [Radar]
- Is it that Tony Snow's a superciliious prat, or does David Gregory just like to scrap? Read and decide for yourself; either way, I have no idea how I'm supposed to make "tendentious" sound like it belongs in a lover's spat. [E&P]
- In Touch muscles in on other celeb weeklies: And is apparently #2 all of the sudden, right after People. But the WWD item doesn't mention Us Weekly. Confusing, but less important than this main fact: In Touch is the cheapest. Amazing how that works. [WWD]
- Gawker wonders what Katie Couric will wear tonight: My reaction was, "Oh yeah! She's on again tonight!" And it's 7:03 pm. Oh Katie, methinks your audience may drop precipitously. We shall see. [Gawker]
