Since today seems to be a slow enough news day that
people will believe almost anything, let's turn to the case of the alleged "Meg White sex tape," which has been
burning up Google since news of it first surfaced over the weekend. I watched it and am pretty unconvinced of its veracity—the necklace she's wearing is of the letter "D," the images are worse-than-webcam blurry, the whole thing seems to be set in a dorm room—but then again, my vision kind of sucks. (UPDATE: Meg's publicist is saying
that it definitely isn't her in the tape.) So I turned to an ad hoc panel of semi-experts—a.k.a. "writers who are on IM right now"—and got their take (anyone who used the old "well that girl had rhythm so it
had to be fake" chestnut was summarily deleted from my buddy list):
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Idolator
This week, The New Republic somehow sold enough ad space to let a bit of wankery about the Led Zeppelin reunion by music writer David Browne into its pages. You can probably guess what the piece's "angle" is from its subhead—"Explaining Led Zeppelin's enduring hold on our collective conscious"—but here's a rundown: OMG LED ZEP REUNION, by the way the White Stripes canceled their tour, Led Zep is "ageless" and so is Nick Drake, "'The Crunge' could almost be a rap boast," and hey, those kids today really do seem to like the Arcade Fire. (Also: Radiohead!) And then there's the closing graf, which tries to tie together the legends of Led Zeppelin and the White Stripes in a horrifically clumsy way:
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Meg White's publicist issues a statement on this morning's hottest viral video: "Some people have a very twisted sense of humor and this prank is in particularly bad taste. The tape 
