In this case, T stood for terrorism. Daniel Okrent, the NYT's public editor, wrote a March 6 column on it and other such loaded words and phrases.

Some excerpts from reader reaction:

I don't know what the concern is. After all, the government is going to the trouble of providing pre-packaged TV "news" to help keep Americans informed.

How much more open can they be? :^)

While I never met Mr. Cameron except through a television set, he would be my template for a textbook-perfect broadcast journalist.

When interviewing someone, he had that rare gift of  a) seemingly reading my mind about what questions I wanted answered, b)  pleasantly surprising me by asking something really interesting that I'd never even thought of and most importantly, c) never making me throw a tantrum by causing me to yell "what a stupid question!"

And now he's gone.

The Toronto Star's Antonia Zerbisias -- or  Zerby, or alternately, "Fat Tony" to her blogging friends from the Vast Right-Wing Conspiracy -- wrote about sharing a pint with some of them a few weeks ago:...   more »

Another battle-of-the-sexes column by the NYT's Maureen Dowd, this time on the dearth of national female columnists at her employer and in the wider newspaper world.

This is quite the Orwellian story from the NYT about how the administration of U.S. President Dubya is producing 90-second TV "news" stories to run on local supper-hour newscasts.

Let me ask you, up front: Do you like the current cartoons in The New Yorker?

In the lead article of the Review section of Saturday's The Globe and Mail, Ellen Vanstone doesn't, and I'm afraid I find myself in disagreement with her.

As I rode The Rocket on the way home from work early this morning, I got around to reading the feature sections of Saturday's The Globe and Mail, where I found yet another George Stromboulopoulos interview.

Writer James Adams offers a look at veteran editor Ken Whyte, who takes over the helm of Maclean's magazine on Monday.

For example, should readers expect a rightward-editorial tilt? Oh, probably. :)