"Last week Double X published Katie Roiphe's desperate cry for relevance, 'Get Your Kid Off Your Facebook Page.' Roiphe, you might remember, is a little famous for a book about how college girls shouldn't let themselves get raped so much." I do remember that! Impossible as it sounds, this gets even better.

Anna Holmes, proprietress of ladysite Jezebel, goes balls out (can we say that?) against the recent spate of self-promoting, fact-averse detractors. Here's a small sample. READ MORE

Trevor Butterworth, of STATS, and Damien Cave, of the Times, today have suggested that full-time media consultant (including to the dangerously ill Newhouse Newspapers) and Google enthusiast Jeff Jarvis stop complaining and start doing, on the occasion of Jarvis' latest very angry rant about, yes, newspapers. This is Butterworth: "Enough blowing; Jarvis, come up with a business plan. You know, one of those things were money comes in to replace the money going out. The endless bloviating over who 'blew it' without actual solutions is beginning to sound like an oral fixation; I realize this must be very gratifying, but it's time to fix the problem, not the blame." READ MORE