The Media's New Rock Star

We don't like attrition either, but it beats pink slips.

Speaking of Post correspondence, Romenesko also has a Bob Woodward ad for a new assistant.

By now you've probably seen the footage of Bush 41 starting to cry as he reminisced about Jeb's 1994 defeat when he first ran for Florida governor. Peggy Noonan, who worked for Bush 41, sees some deeper psychological meaning:

"No one who knows George H.W. Bush thinks that moment was only about Jeb. It wasn't only about some small defeat a dozen years ago. It would more likely have been about a number of things, and another son, and more than him . . .

"I went to a private dinner at the old Bush White House once, and the president, as he sprinkled pepper on his food, began to speak of his son Neil and 'the pounding' he was taking in congressional investigations on the savings-and-loan scandal. He felt Neil was being abused for political reasons. Tears came to the president's eyes, sudden and unbidden."

As for W.'s psychological state, "I'd ask someone in the White House, but they're still stuck in Rote Talking Point Land: The president of course has moments of weariness but is sustained by his knowledge of the ultimate rightness of his course. . .

"If he suffers, they might tell us; it would make him seem more normal, which is always a heartening thing to see in a president.

"But maybe there is no suffering.

"Maybe he outsources suffering. Maybe he leaves it to his father."

Anyone know what to make of this bugging-Diana story? Here's the latest from London:

"American intelligence agencies were bugging Princess Diana's telephone over her relationship with a US billionaire, the Mail's sister paper has learned.

"Evening Standard reports that she was even forced to abandon a planned holiday with her sons in the US with tycoon Teddy Forstmann on advice from secret services, who passed on their concerns to their British counterparts.

"Both US and British intelligence then forced Diana to change her plans to stay with Mr Forstmann in the summer of 1997, saying it was too 'dangerous' to take her sons there."

Just when you thought the story might finally be over . . .

And finally, the NBA pulls the plug on its version of the New Coke.