This article is from The Guardian. Silvio Berlusconi is Italy's prime minister. He's something of a Conrad Black-like figure with his hands on the levers of both government and significant chunks of Italy's media....   more »

I love Japanese food and I adore the 1985 movie Tampopo, which this article references. So, to kill two birds with one stone:

The NYT reports that left-wing claims of voting irregularities, if not fraud, have been debunked.

The BBC is going to be investigated for giving short shrift to European Union skeptics.

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The independent panel will investigate claims the BBC is "systematically Europhile" and has ...

Five were put through their paces: Google, MSN (just rolled out), Yahoo!, Amazon and AskJeeves. And the winner is ...

More housecleaning. Toronto Star ombudsman Don Sellar had a very interesting column last Saturday about the Mohamed Elmasry affair and what the media missed.

A bit of a late posting. Toronto Star media critic Antonia Zerbisias thinks Fox will likely get approved for distribution in Canada.

Oh, boy: Bill O'Reilly's gonna tell us all to Shut Up!!

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CBS has apologized for interrupting CSI: NY to announce that some Palestinian had died. <sarcasm>Like that doesn't happen every day.</sarcasm>

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A big national story tonight is the two Saskatoon police officers suspected of taking a native teenager on a "starlight ride" in 1990 have been fired. I suspect more should go.

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