In your beefy Tuesday media column: Jim VandeHei doesn't even read his old newspaper because it is so stupid, the NYT's most badass old dude passes away, Reuters now non-poisonous, and a smackdown of Michael Kinsley.

In your tricky Thursday media column: the NYT is now a cheap-ass school, media cafeterias rated, the PR industry thrives, another newspaper company goes bankrupt, and News Corp fully supports toadlike fascist Roger Ailes.

New York Times employees are being forced to forage for food outdoors today. The cafeteria is closed because—oh yes—the last 24 hours have brought gastrointestinal sickness to countless innocent NYT employees! Cuisine of DOOM? Scandalous internal memo below.

For the sake of fitness, American college students are being asked to waddle back to their all-you-can-eat cafeteria buffets each time they want a new plateful of hot ham-n-cheese sandwiches and ranch dressing-laden iceberg lettuce. Too much to ask?

Eeesh. The New York Times is celebrating black history month! How? Why, with a special culinary theme in their fancy new cafeteria! An in-house flyer promises appropriately festive spreads each Tuesday in February at the café's International Station. So what kinds of foreign and exotic delicacies awaited hungry Times…

You're pretty glad you work at a newspaper or a network that doesn't have mice running every which way, like the New York Times does, aren't you? Not so fast! We took a look at Department of Health inspection records available for employee cafeterias at media companies over the last year, and some of you better lift…

Better start brown-bagging it if you're a New York Times employee; starting February 4, the cost-cutting newspaper will increase cafeteria prices by 3.9%, according to an email announcement to staffers today. But don't worry! Management would like you to know that coffee prices won't change-hungry employees hopped up…

The new 'Times' building, while rather impressive-looking and generally happy-making, has nonetheless been experiencing some growing pains—faulty elevators, mice, maggots, and complainers. But how's the most vital component of the new HQ working? We've seen the floorplan, but now we've got a full report from someone…

We have to admit more than a pang of envy at seeing photos and the menu of the new Google cafeteria, at the new Google Batcave at 111 Eighth Ave. Roast butternut squash with cinnamon and sage! Grilled chicken with roast apples and curried cashews! Curried organic fingerling potatoes! Wait ... fingerling potatoes? We…

If you haven't been able to wrangle an invitation to the new Hearst cafeteria from your friend at Popular Mechanics yet, have no fear. New York magazine restaurant critic Adam Platt paid a visit to the shiny new Hearst cafeteria recently, and seemed unimpressed with the "chewy skirt steak" from the Hearst ranch in…