New York Times Op-It Girl Maureen Dowd has a cover line on this week’s TV Guide magazine:

MAUREEN DOWD TAKES DOWN THE REAL HOUSEWIVES OF D.C.

The thing is, Dowd is not featured on the TV Guide home page, is not among the Most Popular Stories, and her D.C. Housewives piece does not turn up in a “Maureen Dowd” search of the site.

Or in a search of “Real Housewives of Washington, D.C.”

But if you plug the headline of her piece – “D.C. Power Players? Get Real!” – into the TV Guide site, you get . . . also nothing.

Even a Googletron search comes up empty.

Could it be that Dowd has morphed into the Not-It Girl?

Say not it’s so.