Yesterday we had tech issues, and we're sorry. We hope you didn't miss us too much/noticed we were gone. In any case, while we waited for everything to work again we jotted down all the lovely media tidbits we wanted to share with you...and then suddenly found ourselves seized by the impulse to put it all to the tune of "We Didn't Start The Fire" by Billy Joel. It may be the geekiest thing we've ever done, and there is no good explanation. But when the muse calls, you listen. Here, sing along, assuming the meter's right. (Open in a new window, fyi.)

Roger Ailes and Paula Zahn, back to sports for Olbermann,
Circulation, Michael Jackson shops a TV show

Schanberg on Cooke's thing for feet, Howie Kurtz on Downing Street
How Frist missed on Terri Schiavo

Angie J. on CNN, Graydon C. gets Aniston
Harry Shearer has a list of what makes a journalist

Tom and Katie get engaged, who would ever think it staged?
CPB-paid lobbyists, yay we're not the dirtiest!

We didn't start the fire
It was always burning
Since the world's been turning
We didn't start the fire
No we didn't light it
But we tried to fight it

Interim memorials, Slate on Wikitorials
Wilbanks gets a book deal, Katie gets some flak

Radar takes on Kabbalah, buy yourself a camera
Tom Friedman wants us to send more troops to Iraq

Chocolate skin care, mixtape crimes, layoffs at the New York Times
Locker room chicanery, pre-nuptial therapy

Primedia sale hitch? Yep, recruiting is a bitch
Hamptons land: Geronimo! Gourmet in Guantanamo!

We didn't start the fire
It was always burning
Since the world's been turning
We didn't start the fire
No we didn't light it
But we tried to fight it

(bridge)
Ed Klein and Hillary, whither thou, Fast Company?
Felts get payday after all, Cavuto serves a softball
Wesley Clark signs with Fox, Al Franken talks and talks
NBA on Oddjack, when is MoDo coming back?

Yahoo! thwarts TimeSelect, Gawker takes time to reflect
Duff/Locklear/Mr. Big, HuffPos got some fancy digs

Tucker's got a brand-new show, Fox re-signs Geraldo
Gotham gets its Batman, big election in Iran

We didn't start the fire
It was always burning
Since the world's been turning
We didn't start the fire
No we didn't light it
But we tried to fight it

Please, House, don't retract -- let's revise the Patriot Act!
Lunch at Michael's hits the spot, that New Yorker makes us hot

O'Reilly throws a tantrum, Yanks get a new stadium,
Kristof: champion of women's rights in Pakistan

Matt and Judy, White House Press, cleaning up the Gitmo mess
GMA and "Today" - what else do I have to say?

We didn't start the fire
It was always burning
Since the world's been turning
We didn't start the fire
But when we are gone
It will still go on, and on, and on...
(kinda like this so-o-o-ong...)

**NB - There's actually one more verse to go in the song but frankly we're spent so it falls to you, dear readers, to whip up a kickass final stanza and send it in for us to ooh and aah over. Oh yeah, and no dissing Billy Joel, big shot. He's always a woman to me.