Toronto Star ombudsman Don Sellar offers up three scenarios where you get to play Green Eyeshade Person on a kiddy porn story, managing appearances and the ever-popular "taste."

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Toronto Star media columnist Antonia Zerbisias thinks blogs were the story on her beat for 2004.

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A guy wrote a satirical column recently for the National Review Online on how he'd been blown off by the Washington Post. Trouble is, it never happened.

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This NYT piece explores what Osama bin Laden might be trying to accomplish with the apparent moderation of his language in his audio pronouncements.

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This NYT piece explores how easy it is for people to use the Internet covertly, and how that is freaking out the U.S.'s counter-terrorism gurus -- you know, the ones who can't cope with terrorists communicating in the open.

An amusing story, although I'm a little concerned about where this continued blurring of the lines between humans and their animal companions is leading us. :)

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