According to this Alternet article about a new book (A Public Betrayed: An Inside Look at Japanese Media Atrocities and Their Warnings to the West), Japan's MSM is the most mistrusted in the world. The thing is, it doesn't sound that different in many ways from the U.S. MSM! :)

However, you'd expect a left-leaning U.S. website to say, that, wouldn't you?

A campaign across some regions of the U.S. are trying to convince their residents to keep their towns weird by buying from individual retailers.

I also include a link to a Globe story from the weekend about Queen St. West's ongoing evolution.

It's a trend that first took off in Britain, but now U.S. newspapers are considering a shift to tabloid size.

While they might have preferred to see John Kerry win, liberal magazines in the U.S. say that Dubya's re-election has sent their circulations soaring skyward.

It is rare that people aligned with the two main American political tribes rips their own, but NYT columnist David Brooks (who some see as a faux conservative anyway, given who he writes for) lets some U.S. conservative activists have it.

The coverage I've seen of the Conservative Party policy convention focused on the new, moderate face the party was putting forward.

A question I haven't seen asked is what happened to all the social conservatives and hard-nosed Reformers from the last Alliance configuration that helped populate the Conservatives until, er, Sunday.