Global Language Monitor found 35,000 major news stories about Pope John Paul II's death in the first 24 hours after it happened.

In comparison, that's 10 times the number devoted to the re-election of U.S. President George W. Bush last November.

Matt Conigliaro started a blog called AbstractAppeal about Florida appellate law primarily for his fellow lawyers. But then the Terri Schiavo case exploded in the U.S.

This is a very interesting, if somewhat chilling story, about a former U.S. Army ranger who killed a police officer -- and how Andrew Mickel is using the fact he incorporated himself as his defence to avoid personal responsibility.

If you read this blog regularly, you'll know how incensed I was at  the incompetent story the NYT did in early March linking the Alberta shootings of four RCMP officers to "B.C. Bud."

Well, now the Guardian -- possibly my second-favourite foreign newspaper -- has gone and done a mirror image of that story.

BBC Online chats with Hideo Nakata, director of Ringu and Ringu 2 -- both "adapted" by Hollywood. And while he didn't want to do it, Nakata wound up directing the U.S. version of the Ring ...   more »

Thomas L. Friedman now realizes he missed something while obsessing on Iraq and 9/11 -- the world has changed. Almost any country can now compete globally for knowledge work.

Alessandra Stanley, TV critic for the NYT, finds that the U.S. networks covered Pope John Paul II's death the same way the Vatican announced it -- briskly and efficiently.

The legendary host of one of the vilest TV shows of the 1990s is now doing a three-hour morning politics show on Air America.

This NYT piece looks at how CBS News vet Bob Schieffer is openly campaigning to become Dan Rather's permanent replacement at the anchor desk of the CBS Evening News.