In your sweltering Friday media column: the summer doldrums bring lazy story-theft to the New York Times, Conde Nast quits buying newspapers, a new documentary about reporters , to watch, and Pat Kiernan's Twitter is America's most powerful media outlet.

Dig Deep Enough Into the Wienermobile and You Will Find Pat Kiernan

New York's most popular newsman-hero Pat Kiernan is writing things! On the power of the internet: "My Twitter link to a story about the Weinermobile crash sent over 3,000 clicks to the Minneapolis Star Tribune a couple of weeks ago." Pat Kiernant+wieners=sensation! [Pat, do you and Roger Clark wanna go bowling some time? Email me.]


Dig Deep Enough Into the Wienermobile and You Will Find Pat Kiernan

New York Post, this past Monday: "Di Fara Pizza in Brooklyn Raises Prices to $5 a Slice." New York Times, today: "Di Fara Pizza, a Brooklyn Legend, Raises its Price to $5 a Slice." Hey, that's quicker than they repackage stories from blogs. [UPDATE: A reader writes, "Actually, both the NY Times and the NY Post found that story on a blog, sliceny.com. Slice's founder Adam Kuban, is quoted in both stories, and broke the story. So it is a repackaged blog story." The more you know!]


Dig Deep Enough Into the Wienermobile and You Will Find Pat Kiernan

McKinsey is forcing Conde Nast to stop paying for newspaper subscriptions. Man, newspapers don't even pay for newspapers subscriptions any more.


A new documentary called "Breaking News, Breaking Down" looks at the trauma reporters suffer from covering crazy, horrible events. It looks interesting. Check it out.