HMM. THIS IS INTERESTING. Someone from the New York Times is looking for people to say bad things about me. I guess I’ve been picking on Howell Raines too much!

But there are no secrets in the blogosphere. Heh.

UPDATE: Reader Tom Larsen writes: “How’s this sound?: ‘Critics say that Mr. Reynolds has been …'”

We’ll see.

ANOTHER UPDATE: Just got off the phone with the reporter. I’ve agreed not to blog about the story for now, but he’s promised that it’s not a hatchet job. I think I trust him, and the last New York Times guy to promise that was a man of his word.

YET ANOTHER UPDATE: Yes, I know, it’s not as good a picture as the one of Lil Kim below. I wasn’t hired for my looks, which shouldn’t come as any surprise.

THE LAST UPDATE TO THIS POST: But I can’t resist linking to this parody by Ken Layne. What’s great is that — as the comments indicate — it was realistic enough to fool people!