From the Guardian:

Fanning out across yesterday's news stands, the front pages of the British tabloids offered a rogues' gallery of female stereotypes, all of them applied to one woman: Heather Mills. The Daily Mail cast her as the proud, cunning gold-digger, definitively hoisted by her own petard, with a front-page headline screaming "Damnation of her ladyship". The Daily Mirror opted to give her the mantle of the hysteric, dubbing her "Lady Liar", a stereotype also seized upon in the Daily Express headline "Judge savages fantasist Heather". And then there was the Sun which, in usual subtle style, opted for a headline combining "hysteric" with "whore": the simple, inventive "Pornocchio".

A New York state legislator wants to put the brakes on how much non-consentual commercial use online companies can make of the information they collect on people.

From the Globe and Mail:

Normally, media companies are defendants in legal disputes over commentary and publishing. But not CanWest, it seems. A couple of weeks ago, we told you about a lawsuit CanWest has launched against West Coast website The Tyee. Now another has surfaced, involving, on one level, questions about trademark and allegations of a conspiracy "to embarrass and to injure" media giant CanWest.

From the BBC:

A Moroccan man jailed for pretending to be the brother of the king on the social networking site Facebook has been given a royal pardon.

Fouad Mourtada's lawyer said his client had left the Casablanca jail where he was serving his three-year sentence.

He had been arrested at the beginning of February for "usurping the identity of Prince Moulay Rachid".

From the BBC:

Media rights activists in Sri Lanka have criticised the appointment of a retired army officer to a senior post in the state-run television station.

From the BBC:

A cartoonist in Bangladesh who was jailed after the government said his drawings were insulting to Muslims has been released, prison officials say.