The conservative media guns have been turned on Linda Foley, national president of The Newspaper Guild, for suggesting U.S. troops have been cavalier with respects to journalists' lives in Iraq.

(Thanks to Catherine McKercher, who posted a note about this to CAJ-L)

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CNN's Bill Schneider says they didn't even know Belinda Stronach was pals with Bill Clinton before they did a story on Canada's political soap opera this week.

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In this week's installment, Storkists and intelligent delivery advocates versus secular reproductionists (from The Village Voice).

A friend of mine sent me this Thursday morning. It was billed as being from "a (lefty) political e-mail list. It's pretty damned funny!

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According to this BBC story, a Colombian mayor has outlawed gossip in his small town.

But there's actually a serious side to the story.

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The NYT's Thomas L. Friedman also weighs in on the Newsweek/Koran scandal. He believes while the U.S. must apologize for any desecration of Islam's holy book, it must also speak out against odious behaviour by Muslim extremists -- and encourage Muslim moderates to do the same.

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This is an amusing bit of satirical songwriting by the inimitable JimBobby.