Are we surprised?

Look behind just about any big story in Los Angeles and crisis PR guy Michael Sitrick is usually there, quietly working the media on behalf of, say, Cardinal Roger Mahony or Frank McCourt or Roy Disney or the Getty. Now Nikki Finke complains that he should have been mentioned in today's Pellicano story in the New York Times, as a player advising both Ron Burkle and Michael Ovitz: "It sure looks as if Sitrick and Company has found a new revenue stream flowing out of the Pellicano federal investigation."