WHEN YOU REALLY DON’T WANT TO REPORT IT AT ALL, SEND AN INTERN:

Finally, finally, after suffering nationwide media blog ridicule, the L.A. Times squeeezes out a story about how they didn’t tell the story, plus a “timeline”, bylined Kate Linthicum, of l’affaire Edwards and Hunter. And even then, they couldn’t quite manage to score the facts. . . . I hadn’t seen the byline Kate Linthicum before, so I looked her up. Yes, while they’re throwing all the experienced reporters out of the place, we’ve now got the intern (Barnard Class of 2008) writing the paper.

Plus, advice on how to tell if someone’s really a filmmaker or not.