Across The Media Universe
Being Bonaduce: John Conner, who is just one vowel away from being "the leader of the worldwide resistance and last hope for mankind," ambush interviewed former Partridge Family member Danny Bonaduce as Bonaduce ate lunch outside in Hollywood. As Newsbusters notes, Conner "has a movement and website called Resistance Manifesto wherein he expresses sincere devotion to the conspiracy theories surrounding 9/11 espoused in the film 'Loose Change,' and claims that President Bush is the anti-Christ." The video, posted on Youtube, is a must watch – it closes with Bonaduce telling Conner "you're free to do this little bulls*#t thing you're doing that counts for no one – you're just trying to make yourself feel important by walking up and down the street with a microphone. You're nobody, you're not going to amount to anything, but you get this chance because you live in a free country." Video here.
Yes, He Did It. Here's How It Happened: The New York media world is abuzz about the how and why behind News Corp. overlord Rupert Murdoch's firing of Judith Regan, the HarperCollins editor behind the oh-so-classy O.J. book. According to the New York Times, the last straw may have been comments Regan made to a lawyer that were deemed anti-Semitic. This is a moment of schadenfreude for many of Regan's contemporaries, but Gawker has mixed emotions. "…when we read that Regan had, via a two-sentence press release, been informed that her employment with HarperCollins was terminated, we felt vindicated," they note in a post. "There is (ludicrously inefficient) justice in the world! But then we felt a pang of sadness. We won't have Judith Regan to kick around anymore!...It's a happy day for book publishing, but a sad day for people who make fun of it."