Although John Gruber says that the NYT's David Pogue was in line for a briefing when he was there. Still, the pecking order exists.

And ... wait for it ... where are Europe/UK news outlets? Oh.

Danny Sullivan does due diligence on Facebook's dirty tricks campaign against Google. Did the social network have a point? "I can’t see that Google is using any information in Google Social Search from Facebook," he says. Over to you, Facebook.