Graydon Carter: Sometimes being right isn't as important as being first Newly-nupted Vanity Fair EIC Graydon Carter unburdened to Salon about how nervous he was to run the Deep Throat story, because he wasn't totally sure he had the right dude. Moving forward with the story under those circumstances apparently required "brass balls," and cost the mag $10,000. John O'Connor may be an all right lawyer, but it seems to me that he's the worst agent ever. Felt Family, you got hosed. [Salon]

Nicholas Kristof Wins Michael Kelly Award: NYT columnist Nicholas Kristof doesn't write about his wife or viagra, but he does write about injustices and travesties all around the world (like his most column on Sunday) and galvanizes his readers to help, too. So it's hardly shocking that he is this year's recipient of the Michael Kelly Award, established to honor the former Atlantic Monthly editor who was killed in Iraq, for Kristof's columns on sexual exploitation in Southeast Asia and his columns which consistently (and stubbornly) kept the genocide in Sudan in the national conversation. He gets a prize of $25,000, which probably more than makes up for having a street value of $2.35. [Michael Kelly Award]

Daniel Radosh just fell a little bit in love with Jack Shafer: Over at Slate, Jack Shafer weighs back in on the murky issue of sex slaves in the U.S., based on the even murkier justifications in Peter Landesman's much-impugned and internally-Times-examined NYT Mag piece on the subject. Daniel Radosh and Landesman have sparred fairly ferociously on the matter since then, mostly because Radosh loves to rag on Landesman for shoddy, irresponsible sourcing and because it drives Landesman absolutely crazy. It will also no doubt drive Landesman crazy that Shafer agrees with Radosh that the article was utter hokum without "a scintilla of certitude." Meanwhile, Radosh loves saying "I told you so." Somewhere, a vein is popping in Peter Landesman's head. Round three, we're watching for you. [Slate]