If you’ve been following the news media over the past two weeks, then you know the big stories inside and out: an Alaskan woman wrote a book and some elected officials are working on making new laws. Or so we’ve heard. But the effects of these stories have a reach that extends well into the media world, even tickling the Mediaite Power Grid, leading to a little bit of rearrangement. Inside, find out how Meghan McCain, Andrew Sullivan and others fared.

Over the weekend, renowned Harvard psychologist Steven Pinker penned a reasonably critical review of Malcolm Gladwell‘s latest, What The Dog Saw. But whereas many “bad” reviews resort to sloppy or sound like the settling of personal scores, Pinker’s substantive piece has already garnered a response from the author in the form of a letter to the editor of the New York Times. Hooray for civil, engaging debate!