From the NYT:

The military acknowledged Friday in a briefing for a ranking Senate Republican that news articles written by American troops had been placed as paid advertisements in the Iraqi news media and not always properly identified.

 Senator John W. Warner of Virginia, who heads the Senate Armed Services Committee, told reporters after receiving a 25-minute briefing from officials at the Pentagon that senior commanders in Iraq were trying to get to the bottom of a program that apparently also paid monthly stipends to friendly Iraqi journalists.

Here's Friday's NYT story on the Senate asking for an explanation.

Bell Globemedia -- the parent company of my employer, CTV -- saw some changes Friday at the ownership level.

BCE has cut its share to 20 per cent. Woodbridge Co. Ltd., the Thomson family's holding company, boosted its share to 40 per cent. And TorStar (which publishes the Toronto Star) and the Ontario Teachers Pension Fund now each have 20 per cent stakes.

Here is some Globe and Mail coverage (note: The Globe is also a Bell Globemedia paper):

The deal

Embarking on Project Odyssey's Stormy Waters

Minor stake keeps its toe in the pool

More deals in the works

There is some commentary as well, which isn't available online to mere mortals.

I'm thinking that as a headline writer, what topic offers a better opportunity for bad puns and other word play than a story about anti-impotence drug sales not meeting expectations in the U.S.?

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To see my CTV.ca election blog posting headlines without actually going to that blog, I have them on my politics page.