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Unsurprisingly, Keith Olbermann dedicated one Countdown segment last night to the New York Times Magazine‘s profile of Glenn Beck. Bringing particular joy to Olbermann: Fox News’ own – and advertisers’ – occasionally conflicting feelings about Beck.

You know a television show is IMPORTANT television when both The Atlantic and The American Prospect are having online seminars dissecting every nuance, musical note, and unspoken glance. So it is with HBO’s Treme, the newest must-see television show for the media crowd, which premiered this Sunday and is already greenlighted for a second season.

At the end of last week, Washington Post reporter Ian Shapira wrote a profile of a niche consultant — a “generational guru” — who teaches clients to communicate with members of different generations. Later that day, Gawker’s Hamilton Nolan picked up the story, snarked it down, added a few links — one at the top, one at the bottom — and posted it. Business as usual, right? Wrong.