James Brady, Forbes.com's resident media gusher, gives Glamour editor Cindi Leive the classic James Brady treatment: reverential, awkward. "We had lunch recently at Circo, the casual younger Manhattan spinoff of Le Cirque. Tallish, slender 39-year-old Cindi arrived in a black blazer over a starched white shirt with romantically flowing collars." Trust us, it only gets better from there. GRADE: C

Our pal Jon Friedman latches onto the unstoppable wave that is the TVNewser/Brian Stelter/21-year-old wunderkind profile: "Stelter is the rarest kind of media blogger. He is respected for his knowledge of the industry and the serious subjects that he writes about. Stelter provides useful information to an adult audience. Plenty of other bloggers get their kicks by cranking out mean-spirited gossip." OK, fine, Jon, we'll take your face off our logo. GRADE: A

Let's face it: our favorite guitarist-slash-BusinessWeek media columnist's blog, Fine On Media, is really a thinly-veiled platform for Fine's unfulfilled dream of being a rock critic. (Not, we should add, unlike FishbowlNY.) As such, Fine gets in a pair of 70s rock references (Foghat, Grand Funk Railroad) early while deciphering the message in New York Times' music biz columnist Jeff Leeds' piece on the impact of ringtones on the music industry, among other things. We're pretty sure Fine's ringtone, by the way, is something from the Japan's burgeoning noise-rock scene. Perhaps Melt-Banana? GRADE: B+

Howard Kurtz takes a look at the state of Time under Richard Stengel for his Monday column, reporting that Stengel has just hired a quartet of big-name journalists as columnists (Michael Kinsley, the former editor of Slate and the New Republic, Weekly Standard editor Bill Kristol, former Time managing editor Walter Isaacson and David Von Drehle). Kurtz says Stengel "is abandoning the old Henry Luce approach — a small army of faceless reporters and researchers feeding tidbits into a Cuisinart in New York — in part because that may no longer be economically viable." But hiring big-name columnists is? We're a tad confused, and it's not just the Cuisinart analogy. "In the age of blogging, it isn't easy to keep a weekly magazine fresh." There, we agree. GRADE: B+