Looks like at least half of a "barnyard epithet" snuck its way into today's New York Times. In a print edition-only photograph accompanying Julie Bosman's frontpage profile of TVNewser blogger Brian Stelter, the student-cum-media darling is seen sitting in front of a dry erase board covered in notes and quotations. Among them, right in the center, "I've been pimpin' that shit to [illegible] I see," which is attributed to Sharon. In an effort to confirm just whom that "shit" was pimped to—was it "everyone," "anyone," or "whoever"?—Radar contacted Stelter immediately.

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He explained that the white board is covered with memorable jokes made during the close of his school paper, The Towson University Towerlight, and that they were not meant to go beyond the office. He would not explain to whom—or even what, exactly—Sharon was pimping. Perhaps it was all of us, since, as another quote on the board suggests: "Sharon always puts out on the Internet." That bit of wisdom is attributed to Rob, who also directed the following to Stelter on the big board: "C'mon, Brian. Just on the lips no tongue."

As far as "shit" slipping through the Times's cracks (so to speak), that's the sort of thing the paper would only take from very, very important people. According to sometime Radar contributor Charles Kaiser's obituary of A.M. Rosenthal in the New York Observer:

Rosenthal was famously quotable, although competing publications weren't always smart enough to use his comments. When a Watergate tape revealed that Richard Nixon had said, "I don't give a shit what happens, I want you all to stonewall it," The Times printed shit for the first time, though only in the text of the tape, and not in the accompanying news story.

When a Newsweek reporter called Rosenthal to ask if this was a seismic change in the paper's standards, he replied, "No. We'll only take shit from the President."