In another publicity stunt designed to remind us that not all of YouTube's content is pirated from big media companies, the Google-owned online-video site has been asking its users to post videos posing the questions they'd like to ask at tonight's Democratic presidential-candidate debates. The New York Times' Kit Seeley has deigned to take notice. But in doing so, she made a major gaffe that has one of the people she wrote about accusing her of racism. Here are the details.

Kit Seelye, a Times media reporter in the business section, is off the media beat after two years. She'll cover politics now—but exclusively reporting for the web. (Soon enough, won't the whole paper be? Anyone seeing a trend?) We will miss her unusually firm hairstyle.

Make sure you keep Saturday night open; it's the birthday celebration for Times media reporter Kit Seelye. [Update: Looks like it's actually for Kit Roane of US News & World Report. Well, NB to Kit: if your invitees don't actually know which Kit you are, you probably shouldn't have invited them.] The invite made its way to our mailbag this morning (so hurt not to be directly invited, even if it's in Brooklyn); Kit's well-meaning friend, who sent out the email, might've forgotten about the importance of the BCC field: