The Public Policy Forum has released a report (.pdf file) about the state of Canadian journalism, as based on a "round table" discussion with some high-profile journalists (thanks to Jacques Poitras, who posted to Canadian Journalist).

I haven't had time to read it in depth, but there was no one from CTV or Global on the panel, and virtually everyone else lived in either Toronto, Ottawa or Montreal.

Is there no one from Vancouver, as one example, who could have contributed to the discussion?

The Globe and Mail has an editorial today based in part on CBC prez Robert Rabinovitch's appearance on CBC's The Current on Monday.

(You can listen to Rabinovitch here. The show also did a segment with the N-P's Andrew Coyne and UBC's Donna Logan on the CBC.)

Carole Taylor, a former CBC chair, also talks about what's wrong with the CBC. She thinks it needs to regain its regional voice.

NYT reporter Judith Miller, currently being excoriated over Plamegate, was given a security clearance by the Pentagon so she could go out and join the search for WMDs in Iraq.

Poynter's Jim Romenesko posted a note on Sunday from retired CBS News correspondent Bill Lynch (an excerpt follows):

There is one enormous journalism scandal hidden in Judith Miller's Oct. 16th first person article about the (perhaps lesser) CIA leak scandal. And that is Ms. Miller's revelation that she was granted a DoD security clearance while embedded with the WMD search team in Iraq in 2003.

This is as close as one can get to government licensing of journalists and the New York Times (if it knew) should never have allowed her to become so compromised. It is all the more puzzling that a reporter who as a matter of principle would sacrifice 85 days of her freedom to protect a source would so willingly agree to be officially muzzled and thereby deny potentially valuable information to the readers whose right to be informed she claims to value so highly.

Greg Mitchell of Editor and Publisher also talked about this with Democracy Now!:

AMY GOODMAN: Were you surprised by her Pentagon clearance?

GREG MITCHELL: No. We reported it – I believe we were first to report it in September 2003. In fact, we have sort of rerun that article on our web site today, in which we revealed that status and raised questions about it at the time. The reason it's significant – and I'm sure some listeners are wondering why that's significant in the Plame case – is because as the Times articles this weekend made clear, as Miller admitted, Libby discussed classified information with her. So, this would make him indictable for breaking the Espionage Act, particularly if she did not have any clearance. So, it's incredibly relevant to the Plame investigation right now.

Update:

These lines appeared an AP story on Monday:

Also, a first-person account by Miller said the Pentagon had given her "clearance to see secret information" while she traveled in Iraq with a military unit hunting for unconventional weapons.

Embedded reporters were regularly granted access to some classified information about basic military operations, but it wasn't clear from Miller's article whether she was describing such a routine arrangement or implying she had broader clearance.

Greg Mitchell, editor of Editor and Publisher, says NYT reporter Judith Miller, who figures prominently in both Plamegate and reporting on WMDs, should be fired for crimes against journalism.

Democracy Now! speaks with Newsweek journo Michael Isikoff and Editor and Publisher editor Greg Mitchell -- who thinks NYT executive editor Bill Keller should fire Judith Miller and apologize to the paper's readers.

American social commentator Barbara Ehrenreich, in her 50s, went looking for a job. Bait and Switch is the story of her 10-month exercise in futility.

Check out the Daily Show website and see if they posted the  video clip of Dubya's scripted news conference with troops in Iraq from last Thursday. Mucho amusing!

Salon blogged about it, as did CBS News -- primarily to take a shot at an NBC media stunt.

But Bush's performance plus Jonno's commentary is an unbeatable combination!