Back on Aug. 16, I wrote this:

Next Jan. 8 will mark the day when Elvis would have turned 70. I hope I remember to say, "thanks, King. Happy birthday and rest in peace."

So happy birthday!

You'd think the officials of a bankrupt, starving country would have better things to do, but in North Korea, they've decided to crack down on long hair.

But to them, there is a link between ...   more »

A CTV/Globe and Mail/Ipsos-Reid poll has found Canadians think the Liberal government of Paul Martin responded appropriately to the tsunami disaster.

But when it comes to opening the doors to tsunami victims to immigrate, that's a different matter.

This BBC Online piece is about people who anonymously blog about their jobs.

Read these excerpts, and then I'll tell you about my policy.

This is from a May 2004 speech by Los Angeles Times editor John S. Carroll given at the University of Oregon. Yes, that is a relative while ago, but I still think it's worth noting:

All across America, there are offices that resemble newsrooms, and in those offices there are people who resemble journalists, but they are not engaged in journalism. It is not journalism because it does not regard the reader — or, in the case of broadcasting, the listener, or the viewer — as a master to be served.

To the contrary, it regards its audience with a cold cynicism. In this realm of pseudo-journalism, the audience is something to be manipulated. And when the audience is misled, no one in the pseudo-newsroom ever offers a peep of protest.

USA Today broke a story on Friday about a prominent African-American conservative commentator who admits he was paid $240,000 US by the U.S. Department of Education to tout Dubya's No Child Left Behind program.