The Globe and Mail's Rod Mickleburgh examines whether the video of the tragic death of Robert Dziekanski at the hands of Taser-wielding RCMP officers tells the whole story.

I offer a few thoughts on the Rodney King footage of the early 1990s, and what lessons can be drawn from that case.

Tear down the wall! online publishers seem to be crying these days. This Washington Post story rounds up what's been happening.

From the NYT:

CBS filed a motion yesterday seeking the dismissal of a lawsuit by Dan Rather, who says that the network violated his contract by giving him too little to do after it forced him off the evening news in 2005 and that its investigation of the news segment about President Bush’s National Guard service was politically biased.

“This lawsuit is a regrettable attempt by plaintiff Dan Rather to remain in the public eye, and to settle old scores and perceived slights, based on an array of far-fetched allegations,” the network said in a 30-page brief filed in State Supreme Court in Manhattan. The papers represented the network’s first response to the suit Mr. Rather filed on Sept. 19.

Referring specifically to Mr. Rather’s assertion that CBS and its senior executives had sought to do the White House’s bidding in commissioning an incomplete investigation of the National Guard segment, the network said: “CBS and its executives are not now, and never have been, out to get Dan Rather.”