Eric Bohlert, writing in Salon, argues the administration of U.S. President George W. Bush has an agenda to sabotage the press's coverage of government -- and that it has willing co-conspirators in organizations like Fox ...   more »

Michael Buerk was in Toronto on Monday to deliver the Atkinson lecture at Ryerson University. Here is Toronto Star media columnist Antonia Zerbisias's take on his speech.

Monte Solberg, Conservative MP and blogger, offers a few thoughts on the sometimes testy relationship between journos and politicos while saying a few nice words about CTV's Joy Malbon, who has moved from Ottawa to ...   more »

The buzz in the TV world today is the release of a New Yorker article by Ken Auletta on Dan Rather, in which the outgoing anchor of the CBS Evening News is ripped by network stalwarts like Don Hewitt, Andy Rooney and Walter Cronkite.

Canadian journalist Stevie Cameron is in Israel, where her professor husband David is teaching a course on federalism until June or so.

Stevie has caught the blogging bug: You can find her stuff at http://steviecameronblog.blogspot.com

Washington Post ombudsman Michael Gertler, after reading several bad-news-for-newspapers stories in his own paper, defends the beleaguered medium.

For more on the bashing, please see this blog posting, newspaper angst.

This Toronto Star story out of Monday's Gomery testimony is quite astonishing. Read it and see what I mean.

This little BBC piece talks about the toys for boys that real Brit secret agents had available. Exploding pens and human torpedoes aren't myths!