It’s true! She’s not! Not in all these PHOTOS and VIDEOS of TAYLOR MOMSEN from GOSSIP GIRL who might know JUSTIN BIEBER! She’s not wearing pants! That’s totally a dress! And you can thank the NYT’s David Carr for the fact that it’s now my headline.

Rex Sorgatz is many things: Writer, editor, blogger, developer, consultant, authority on microcelebrity, wearer of exotic t-shirts, former web TV show Svengali, proud dog owner and surely one of the biggest consumers of media I’ve ever met (and don’t call him Shirley — though you can call him Fimoculous, online, if you’re referencing the blog [...]

On this Thanksgiving, Mediaite turns 143 days old. We’ll be checking in today between turkey courses, and throughout the rest of the long weekend, but we also wanted to look back on the 143 days since we were first born on that early July morning.

And what better way to look at our history than to break down some of the things we’re thankful for.

Who’s prettier, more conniving and more ambitious: the characters from the CW’s Gossip Girl or the media elite? Both live in worlds of ambition, access, even backstabbing, and some might say it’s all one big popularity contest. But it’s not just beauty and a knack for spreading news quickly that unite our favorite teen-soap and the media figures whose every move we track. Spotted: Our favorite Gossip Girl characters and their real-life media counterparts.

“This story is organic to the characters and it’s handled in a responsible way.” — Dawn Ostroff, President of Entertainment at the CW Network, justifying tonight’s threesome episode on Gossip Girl. Please let it not be Rufus, Lily and Eric.

What do you call a journalist who dresses up as a fireman on Halloween, starts a fake fire so that he can trick and then sexually abuse a female colleague in her New York City apartment for upwards of 12 hours before leading police on a multi-state man hunt?

The answer? A freaking huge Gossip Girl fan.