"You either liked her or you hated her. There wasn't much room in the middle. But almost everyone respected her reporting."

That's Nikki Finke on Nikki Finke. Oops, I mean, that's Nikki Finke on Anita Busch, to whom she apologizes on behalf of the entire Hollywood press corps for belittling her claims that she was being threatened by private investigator Anthony Pellicano. Pellicano has finally been charged with doing precisely that by the DA.

Finke ascribes the refusal to take Busch's situation seriously to the media community's misplaced priorities. "[W]e made the mistake of putting personality before principle," writes Finke, and that's why Finke, I mean Busch, never got the attention she deserved. I'd say that Finke has found a new best friend, except that, as she writes, the understandably press-shy Busch didn't return her phone calls.