Joan Walsh, Salon's editor-in-chief, takes a look back at Rather-gate on the eve of the great man's departure and what it does and doesn't say about both the MSM and the blogosphere.

Dan Rather takes his last spin in the anchor chair tonight. Some of his old colleagues have been saying that should have happened years ago.

This BBC article looks at the many and varied ways China controls the surfing of its citizens.

A 23-year-old Washington resident who blogs about the media has been granted a White House press pass.

The Village Voice's Jarrett Murphy on why the Big Three should move to 7:30 p.m. and a brief conversation with Princeton economist and NYT Bush-basher Paul Krugman.

Sinn Fein supporter Robert McCartney was killed in a Belfast pub by republicans linked to the IRA.

And how did the IRA propose to make things right? But offering to kill those directly responsible for McCartney's death!!