Well, look on the bright side, New England fans. At least no one on the street got to check out your mammogram records. That’s what happened to a 54 year old New York woman. You see, during the Giants’ big celebratory parade on Tuesday, businesses along the route were supplied with confetti to throw out. Unfortunately, some people got overzealous and started throwing out any paper they could find in their office without even shredding it. This meant that documents featuring people’s social security numbers, legal statements, and medical records were gracefully gliding to the ground.

Welcome to the latest installment of our summer series in which we head back into the Mediaite Vault (*cough* the Internet *cough*) to find some choice moments showing our favorite media personalities back when their journalism hit a little less hard. Consider it meeting the press before they were the press. This week, we check in with Bill O’Reilly as he brings us the source of the great hairspray shortage of 1989.

Every night Shepard Smith wraps up his program with a fun and light-hearted toss to Bill O’Reilly, the serious clean-up hitter of FNC’s murderer’s row. But tonight, Shep seemed to have a bit of extra fun by referencing a viral O’Reilly moment from yesteryear, as he promised viewers that they’d return to coverage of an unfolding car chase. Shep exclaimed “we’ll do it live!” in the same manner that O’Reilly’s legendarily exasperated while taping Inside Edition back in the day. Video after the jump.

Revelations that Obama’s adorkable budget director Peter Orszag was getting married to one woman and having a baby with another elicited advice and scorn, but raises the question: what is it about business nerds that attracts female reporters?

Deborah Norville‘s career in media has spanned from channel to channel, network to cable, morning to evening. She’s anchored evening newscasts at NBC and CBS, did a stint as the co-host of the Today show and The Early Show and hosted a show on MSNBC. But now she is the long-time host of the popular syndicated news show Inside Edition. She’s also the author of several books, from Children’s books to Nonfiction – the latest being “The Power of Respect: Benefit from the Most Forgotten Element of Success,” which came out this week. With back-cover blurbs ranging from Sean Hannity to Dr. Mehmet Oz, the book highlights what can be gained by “respect” – both professionally and personally. Now she’s the latest to give her thoughts for the Mediaite’s a href=”http://www.mediaite.com/tag/5qq/”>5QQ – Five Quick Questions.