Steve Jobs is on a whistle stop tour of New York media companies - wearing a big top hat?

An iPad's sales job isn't over with the event announcement.  Steve Jobs has been working his magic around New York, hitting the big media companies, selling his iPad vision to the big players.   Yesterday, he made a whistle stop tour of both the Wall Street Journal as well as the New York Times' Newsroom.

Last night, he stopped to have dinner with 50 executives of the New York Times, apparently arriving in a tall hat.

When Apple recently booked the cellar dining room at Pranna for a talk with 50 top executives from the New York Times, even restaurant higher-ups didn’t know who their VIP guest would be. But last night, Jobs came strolling in wearing what our source calls “a very funny hat — a big top hat kind of thing.”...

Jobs, who sat at the head of the "intimate, family-style gathering" with Times publisher Arthur Sulzberger, demonstrated the iPad and its functions, and spoke about how it could serve the future of media...

Jobs confessed that, although he reads the Times online every day, even he likes to hold the Sunday edition in his hands.

If anyone has a picture, real or fake, of Jobs in a tall hat, we're all eyes.

From Spencer Caldwell