Toronto Star columnist Haroon Siddiqui likes the German approach to relations with the Muslim world.

I'm walking eastward on College Street, on the north side, when I run into my man Maurice of Ammo Video. Normally, that wouldn't be a problem, except I had a Blockbuster Video DVD in my hand.

He saw me with it. His eyes popped out. His mouth dropped open.

Jacques Roche, one of Haiti's best-known journalists, has been found murdered and mutilated. He'd been missing for five days.

The BBC's monitoring service has done a round-up of world press reaction to the discovery that the London bombers were homegrown terrorists.

Writing in today's Globe and Mail, columnist Lawrence Martin thinks the Western media is being played like a fiddle by terrorists.

The alternative media is worried about coming changes to Google's news-ranking algorithm, saying it will bury them in favour of the MSM.

A Wall Street Journal story about MSM journos who blog under their paper's banner (ya readin' this, Zerby?).

NY Press columnist Matt Taibbi's "job interview." I'll leave it to you to decide whether it's real or fake (thanks, Kevin!).

Two movies have just been made about Truman Capote -- bon vivant, fame junkie and writer of the seminal In Cold Blood. This NYT article looks back at Capote.

Actually, the gloves may have come off a bit Wednesday night: Newsworld went off the air for a while (note: it was a technical glitch). The battle appears to be over the Corp.'s wish to make as many people as possible contract employees.

A BBC official is dismissing as "beneath contempt" some utterances by Fox News personality Bill O'Reilly in the wake of the 7/7 bombings.