Jill Lepore had an excellent column for the New Yorker today in which she laments that the story of the Susan G. Komen Foundation and Planned Parenthood has become “obscenely, a story about partisan divisions, as if some parts of women’s bodies are Democratic and other parts are Republican.” It’s almost impossible to argue with this point but, if you needed any further proof, just look to the way certain news outlets are covering the breast cancer organization’s reversal on their previous stance. We’ve collected some of the…uh…”best.”

If you’re not a particularly big fan of Project Runway, you probably skipped out on Piers Morgan last night, whose ads spent the day reminding viewers he would be interviewing Heidi Klum. If you’re not particularly a fan of Project Runway and also a fan of 1980s New Romanticism, you would have been sorely disappointed, as the second half of the program featured and interview with 3/4ths of Duran Duran. As far as influence and conversational potential, the decision to advertise one over the other appears bizarre, but with the obvious difference between the two guests, one has to ask– is eye candy not all created equal?

After a self-imposed weekend suspension (an emerging MO), Countdown host Keith Olbermann returned to Twitter this morning to engage the controversy surrounding his dismissive treatment of rape allegations against Wikileaks founder Julian Assange. Given the time to compose a calm, reasoned response, Olbermann elected to use a single random tweet to tar the #MooreAndMe protest as violent, accuse its members of financial coercion, attack #MooreAndMe creator Sady Doyle for smoking cigarettes, and finally, to ignore the central issues in this brouhaha.

Someone should gently suggest to Olbermann that when you’re already in a hole, stop digging.

While Keith Olbermann has been unwilling to respond to legitimate questions regarding dismissive treatment of rape allegations against Wikileaks founder Julian Assange, he has announced that he was quitting Twitter until the “frenzy” died down. If Sady Doyle, the woman who started the protest that forced him off Twitter, is any indication, he could be waiting a long time, and taking serious damage in the process.

On Tuesday’s Countdown, host Keith Olbermann and guest Michael Moore sparked widespread outrage over their dismissive treatment of rape allegations against Wikileaks founder Julian Assange. While some of the segment is open to interpretation, Moore made a clear factual error when he said that Assange only stands accused of having his condom break during consensual sex.

Michael Moore is in hot water over comments he made during Tuesday night’s Countdown with Keith Olbermann. In discussing rape allegations against Wikileaks founder Julian Assange, Moore appeared to dismiss the accusations as “hooey”, and repeated the false claim that Assange is only accused of having a condom break during consensual sex.

The website Tigerbeatdown.com has started a Twitter campaign to get Moore to set the record straight, and perhaps find a better way to spend his $20,000.

On Sunday’s Reliable Sources, The Daily Beast’s Howard Kurtz waded into the recent flap over New York Times ballet critic Alastair Macaulay‘s dig at dancer Jenifer Ringer‘s weight in his review of The Nutcracker. Macaulay’s observation that “Jenifer Ringer, as the Sugar Plum Fairy, looked as if she’d eaten one sugar plum too many” prompted a rebuke from Jezebel’s Margaret Hartmann, but Kurtz thinks Macaulay was “well within his journalistic rights.”

Jezebel got a great profile in today’s NYT, on the heels of last week’s skirmish about whether or not the Daily Show was a welcoming and equal-opportunity environment for women. Dubbed “A Web Site That’s Not Afraid to Pick a Fight,” the article gives the 411 on Jezebel, the Daily Show dustup, the site’s history [...]

Who’s right? Who’s wrong? Who’s a clawing, cat-fighting bitch? No one. They’re both right: The women of the Daily Show have an awesome job, at an awesome place, and do awesome work. But the male/female ratio on late-night comedy shows is not awesome. Which Jezebel was 100% right to examine.

Earlier this week, The Daily Show responded to Jezebel’s allegations of sexism by having all of their female employees write an open letter. Last night on the Colbert Report, Stephen Colbert also felt the need to defend his old stomping grounds and he showed just how seriously he takes Jezebel’s accusations by devoting an entire segment to- OH MY GOD, LOOK! CANDWICHES!

A couple of weeks ago, the Gawker-owned women’s interest and news blog Jezebel posted an article entitled “The Daily Show’s Woman Problem” in which they quoted former female employees of the venerable satire program accusing the show of being a “boy’s club” and Jon Stewart of ostensibly being a sexist who runs the office with “joyless rage.” The accusations infuriated many including, apparently, the Daily Show’s current female employees. The women just published an open letter in which they set the record straight about the show (and man) for whom they work.

New York magazine lost two high-ranking employees this week: deputy editor Hugo Lindgren to the revamped Bloomberg BusinessWeek and online managing editor Jessica Coen to Gawker Media’s Jezebel. Gawker’s reacquisition of Coen is the fourth in a recent trend: medium-to-high profile bloggers and reporters, nursed as neophytes on Nick Denton‘s teat, coming back to Gawker Media for a second time. Does this company represent online media’s last best hope?

You can sympathize with Guy Trebay, the incredibly talented fashion writer at the New York Times. With the news focused on Haiti and Leno/Conan, no one is all that interested in fashion, even with the debut of season seven of Project Runway. So you turn on the TV, catch Anderson Cooper carrying kids to safety on CNN in his tight, black t-shirt, and think: now there’s a story. It’s an interesting premise, but still, it all felt a little awkward.

Double X, the women-oriented website launched by Slate will be folded back into the larger site come the new year. It’s a shame — the marketplace is not exactly flooded with intelligent, newsy websites devoted to women — if not a total surprise.

Here is a video of the GELF “Overlooked Women In Media” panel from September 2009, featuring Mediaite’s Rachel Sklar and Glynnis MacNicol, CNET’s Caroline McCarthy, Jezebel’s Anna Holmes and Slate Double X’s Jessica Grose.

Today’s Gawker Media redesign unveils a new feature that attempts to optimize the loyalty of the network’s already robust fan base. Gawker Open Forums now exists on all of the group’s nine blogs, integrating social networking, crowdsourcing and standard discussion forums, leaving each blog as not only a conversation starter, but a channel where news can be broken, shared and commented on by readers, all in one place.

A small photo of a “full figured” model in the recent issue of Glamour has made a plus-sized splash with readers. Is all the positive feedback be a sign of things to come? Or is Glamour‘s plus-sized roll-out just a play to afford readers a sense of comfort in the world of flat bellies and diet tips? “Trust me, Glamour‘s listening, and this only strengthens our commitment to celebrating all kinds of beauty,” writes editor-in-chief Cindi Leive.

Steve Harvey apparently wasn’t content just being a radio host, bestselling author, and Original King of Comedy, so as of today, he’s begun a stint as a contributor for Good Morning America. You can see how he stacks up against other TV reporters on the Power Grid here.

It’s probably a good, though cynical, move for both parties.

Last week I published an interview with Jill Sobule on the website I edit, The Rumpus. Jill’s biggest song was the 1995 hit “I Kissed A Girl.” Katy Perry’s biggest song is also titled “I Kissed A Girl” and was written with the help of her manager, the same guy who originally signed Jill to her label. In the interview Jill Sobule called Katy Perry a “title thieving little slut”. What happened next taught me something new about the Internet: theft spreads.