This is an interesting column by Daniel Okrent, public editor of the NY Times. It's about the difficulty of getting a letter to the editor published if you directly take on a Times writer.

The awards are from the Writers Guild of America.

Here's links to three stories from the BBC that offer some insight into contemporary America.

Here's a link to The Globe and Mail story on the CAJ release.

I'll add some commentary to the following excerpts:

So I went to bed last night, vaguely dissatisfied with the CAJ's latest utterance on the Stevie Cameron case, but wanting to sleep on it before saying anything.

Then Ryerson journalism professor John Miller made a statement on the issue to CAJ-L, and it helped crystallize my thoughts:

Here's the text of the CAJ's second statement on Stevie Cameron, issued late Friday evening:

Here's a couple of blog postings. Jay Rosen has written that he didn't think Eason Jordan should have stepped down from his executive position with CNN over his Davos remarks.

Rosen then points to a posting from the blog Glocal man, who wrote the following post on Feb. 15: Eason Jordan, bagged by glocal bloggers:

The International Federation of Journalists is taking a shot at the United States over journalist deaths in Iraq in the wake of the Eason Jordan affair.

Kirk Makin of The Globe and Mail wrote about the Stevie Cameron dust-up on CAJ-L today.

On the surface, he appeared to have just scraped the list postings and didn't put much more into it, other than an interview with CAJ president Paul Schneidereit.

Certain elements on Toronto city council -- who mainly represent the culturally vibrant suburbs -- don't want any posters cluttering up the cityscape.

I would fall into the camp that says postering is part of what makes a city come alive. To that end, there is a benefit concert tonight at the Bloor Cinema. Details to follow:

The two were working near the Sunni insurgent hotspot of Ramadi, reports al-Arabiya.

A couple more pieces on "Jeff Gannon's" admission to the White House press club, ostensibly to lob softballs to Dubya.

Remember Memo-gate? Remember that three CBS staffers were asked to go quietly into that dark night?

Well, they're still there! New York Observer reporter Joe Hagan talked about their story with Democracy Now!

CTV.ca has a budget hub for the festivities on Feb. 23. One of my stories for it is When budgets fail, minority governments fall.

Given the choice between a new Takashi Miike movie or a doc on the greatest moments in infomercial history, what does one choose?

To me, it's no choice!

This is a look at the life and career of Eleanor Gould Packham, the Mensan proofreader who spent 54 years at the New Yorker magazine.

The NYT talks to the two reporters -- including one from its own shop -- at the heart of an ongoing sourcing controversy over the public identification of CIA agent Valerie Plame.

This NYT article takes at look at the pressures on the U.S.'s Public Broadcasting Service, such as disappearing corporate underwriting and Congressional accusations of liberal bias.

The ever-acerbic Frank Rich on the White House's real-life rendition of The Daily Show.

And I was so looking forward to another futile, heart-breaking Leafs playoff run!

Giuliana Sgrena appeared Wednesday in one of  those awful videotapes, begging for her life to be saved.

Well, how about that Gary Bettman! Is one really working towards a settlement when they present something as a final, non-negotiable offer?

An NYT reporter and a Time magazine reporter are staring jail in the face after a U.S. appellate court rules they must identify the sources who helped them identify a covert CIA agent.

A perceptive column by the NYT's Paul Krugman on what the ascension of Howard Dean to the chairmanship of the U.S. Democratic National Committee means.

While some polling has reportedly had the Tories making gains in Ontario, a new EKOS poll for the Toronto Star, released Monday, suggests that isn't so.

Eye had a contributor opine on CBC Newsworld's The Hour. He was not that complimentary.

Trying to catch up. This was first noticed by Penney Kome, who posted a note about it to CAJ-L.

It's about the fake right-wing "journalist" Jeff Gannon and the Talon News Service. The piece appeared in Salon:

The former editor of Saturday Night magazine and founding editor of the National Post newspaper has a new gig.

An NYT story about Jordan Eason, the former CNN news executive and the latest victim of a mass blogging attack, and what it might mean.

Canadian Press moved a story late Sunday from Conservative MP Jason Kenney, who dispensed this bromide to a group of South Asian journalists last month: Gays and lesbians can marry whoever they want -- just so long as it's not someone of the same sex.

Ms. Dowd has a witty little column riffing on the New York journalist who bought his wife an A to Z list of books to help her understand him better (it was her birthday). Here's her Valentine's list.

An excellent article on the attempted rebirth of some of the 1980s' top acts, why they're failing on radio and in music sales --but also why they're expected do well in their concert tours.

Liberal NYT columnist Bob Herbert laments the passing of the thinker and playwright Arthur Miller.

This has been a great Valentine's series over at Better Living Centre -- if you like nasty swipes at crass consumerism. :)

Here's the latest installment. [ /30 ]