NY Mag media reporter Michael Wolff is an official "embed" and is reporting from CentCom. Jeff Jarvis reports: "Today, Gen. Renuart called on him as 'the gentleman with my kind of haircut.' Wolff asked the general whether the media was misrepresenting the progress of the war... or not. 'The media is reality,' the general replied. 'The media is a snapshot of what it sees at that point in time.... The challenge has been the immediacy.... I don't think the media has had an adverse effect... I think most of the commanders are comfortable.' [Ed. note"the media is reality"? There's a frightening thought.]
Embedded in the press corps [Buzzmachine]

· Petition that actor French Stewart change his name to "Freedom" Stewart [via MeFi]
· Entertainment Weekly founder/uber-blogger Jeff Jarvis and former Talk Editor Tina Brown kiss and make up.
· "I prefer Adidas to Puma."

FilmMagic has pictures from the March 10 media bias panel at Grand Centralpresumably taken before the sparks flew. Notice a smiling Janeane Garofalo before moderator Harry Evans told the panelist to stay and sign their books except Janeane because "you don't have a book." See also a smiling Tina Brown before she "dissed" Entertainment Weekly founder Jeff Jarvis. (Jarvis says, "She didn't diss me; she only ignored me; when you're famous, you have to do that all day.")
The Week media panel [FilmMagic]
Tina disses mag mogul [Page Six]

Entertainment Weekly founder Jeff Jarvis on a recent brush with Tina Brown: "I was sitting, at random, next to two people who happened to know Tina Brown. She came over to say hello to them. Verbal hugs and virtual kisses...Brown talked about her upcoming TV show on CNBC (and how she's not sure she should do the Oscars if we have a war on... and besides, this is Harvey's year). I tried to be polite and interested and join in the conversation, which is what you do where I was raised, and so I tried to task a simple conversational question: When is the show starting? I get ignored. Poof: I am not there. She looks at me. She does not see me. I mutter to myself, I started a magazine, too, honey, and mine is alive and profitable." That's our Tina! And hey, it's Tina Brown Day at Gawker! (Oh, who are we kidding? Every day is Tina Brown Day at Gawker. All we care about, really, is Tina Brown and expensive restaurants.) Send your Tina stories to tips@gawker.com.
Status [Buzzmachine]