Defamer Defamed

After months of debate over who the Defamer might be, the New York Daily News' Lloyd Grove on Thursday prematurely unmasked the blogger, who will be officially outed in the December issue of Esquire. Without further ado, the Defamer is... Mark Lisanti. Or, as the Defamer/Lisanti writes in his own post: "Surprise! I'm nobody." Actually, that's not quite true. Besides Defamer, Lisanti reveals that he was also behind the website bunsen.tv, which offered up some of the funniest and most clever writing in the blogosphere. Bunsen had virtually disappeared in recent months -- now we know why. My Variety co-worker Nicole LaPorte reports that she actually went to college with Lisanti. I already like the guy: He links to Franklin Avenue, after all. Here's hoping good things for him -- and here's hoping Moonves, Zucker and Emmanuel don't find his address.