"We are not free-riders and we would consider it libelous for you to make that claim outside correspondence intended to settle a minor difference of opinion." -Newser CEO Patrick Spain goes postal on The Wrap for complaining about lack of linkage in stories they ran in full, for free. Newser editor Caroline Miller responded-with a post with no link at all to The Wrap. Newser's Michael Wolff was basically just snide, though at least he linked! Here's the thing. Why is everyone just such a huge bitch? (And no, that's not "libelous.")

You are going to need to get a load of this: an explanation of the infamous Friskies 'Adventureland' commercial. "Feeding wet," as [Susan] Schlueter calls it, can for some owners be a highly ritualized and intimate pet interaction. The pop of the can primes kitty for excitement. The scents that escape set feline nostrils aflutter. This is a time for cats and owners to bond over a heap of moist, processed meat. And, according to Schlueter, many owners like to imagine what their cats are feeling and thinking during these moments of culinary ecstasy…. Schlueter says the target is 'owners who are very involved with their cats, [...]

Reporter John Cook has departed Gawker. Gawker Media publisher Nick Denton wildly undermined Cook on the way out the door, writing that "Gawker's awesome John Cook is about to disappear into the maw of Yahoo" on his Twitter. This is Yahoo's bazillionth hire in the last few months.

After Henry Blodget fired editor John Carney from his role as the editor of Clusterstock last week, some clearly felt that Blodget, the Business Insider cofounder and CEO, owed an explanation. Blodget and Reuters finance blogger Feliz Salmon got into a Tweet-spat, which culminated in Blodget serving up something like a master class on New Media Economics Friday evening. Blodget was direct, laying out the numbers behind running a web site. His arithmetic checks out-but that doesn't mean his math makes sense.

For this coming Sunday's New York Times magazine, Jeff Koons has apparently provided photographs of two bunnies. Just two days ago, the Times reported on the decline in work and income for professional photographers. After claiming that amateurs and their low pricing were hurting professional photographers, a claim that is total baloney-newspapers and magazines changed their rates and the amount of work they commissioned, is actually what happened!-the Times started to make sense: "Professionals are also being hurt because magazines and newspapers are cutting pages or shutting altogether…. And while magazines once sniffed at stock photographs, which are existing images, not original assignments, shrinking editorial budgets made them reconsider." [...]