Gayle Kabaker, "June Brides"

June is the most popular month of the year to get married, and not just for the Romans, who did so to honor Juno, the goddess of marriage. It is also preferred by media power couples. Three of them snuck in late-late June weddings over the weekend. 

New Republic publisher Chris Hughes and Sean Eldridge's Saturday wedding lived up to couple's reputation as the photogenic poster grooms for marriage equality. But the blow-out might have caused a scheduling conflict for fellow Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg, whose buddy Washington Post CEO and chairman Donald Graham married Bloomberg executive editor for investigations Amanda Bennett the same day. (Luckily, their Philadelphia nuptials were family only, the Post reported.)

On the opposite side of the country, in Catalina Island, Calif., a New York Times wedding was underway: Times education writer Tanya Caldwell wed former Times reporter Jonathan Abrams. He is now a staff writer for Grantland.

Mr. Beck's paycheck would put him among the top 25 highest paid baseball players, and it's not bad for a radio personality either. Sirius XM reportedly pays Howard Stern $60 M. a year after production costs, Rush Limbaugh's eight-year contract is worth $50 M. annually, and Sean Hannity's five-year contract is worth around $20 M. a year, plus a profit share on his show.

A talk radio fixture for about a decade, Mr. Beck left Fox News last year to start his paywall protected streaming network, GBTV. "The Glenn Beck Program" is syndicated to hundreds of stations by Premiere (owned by Clear Channel), making it a highly rated marketing opportunity for Mr. Beck's other ventures. Premiere also sells advertising for some of Mr. Beck's sites.

According to Getty, Tolstoy's somewhere in this babe pile.

Computers. What are they good for?  To make human errors more pervasive and therefore funnier, for one. Consider this Nook version of Leo Tolstoy's War and Peace, in which, according to blogger Philip Howard (hat tip Ars Technica), every instance of the word "kindled" has been replaced with "Nookd."

"It was as if a light had been Nookd in a carved and painted lantern," goes one of eight occasions of (probably inadvertent) Barnes & Noble propagandizing.

Our best guess is that the publisher who submitted it to Nook, Superior Formatting Publishing, had also submitted it to rival Amazon's Kindle and had changed references on the cover page, etc. with a quick find-and-replace. Superior Formatting Publishing appears to be part of the cottage industry of pseudo-publishers who reformat pre-ebook books that have entered the public domain, especially clunky classics like War and Peace.

It's an easy error to make but an embarrassing one, considering your sole function is to format a book that has already been discovered, edited, copy-edited, and translated by humans who didn't even have computers.

A house ad in the May 30 print edition of Politico.

Politico enraged much of the media this morning when it published an article accusing top competitors The New York Times and The Washington Post of biased campaign coverage, favoring President Barack Obama.

To us, it seemed like a shameless beat-sweetener. Signal to the G.O.P. that you think the other guys were unfair, the thinking goes, and then watch the Mitt Romney exclusives roll in.

GQ's Devin Gordon took it even further, concluding that the piece is a "thinly disguised, fundamentally craven argument for Politico's superiority in the world of political coverage." (Especially considering it was penned by Politico's two most prominent editorial employees, executive editor Jim VandeHei and White House correspondent/newsletter writer Mike Allen.)

"Let's call this article for what it was," Mr. Gordon wrote. "It wasn't journalism. It was business."

Looking at it that way, the article does seem of a piece with this Politico house ad that appeared in the Wednesday print edition. Name-checking comScore and Poynter.org, it's obviously targeted at a media-conscious audience, and it boasts that Politico strikes a "perfect balance" and has "the most balanced audience."