The Salon blurb: "Facing a slow death, newspapers are desperately trying to reach young readers with dumbed-down tabloids full of stories about Kobe, Britney and dental bling."

The dismissed editors of Freezing Point, a weekly journal recently shut down, have blasted Chinese propaganda officials and called for freedom of speech in a public letter. Some intellectual supporters of theirs wrote a joint letter to China's President Hu Jintao, saying the closing of the journal violated China's Constitution.

Eugene Jarecki has created a film that I wanted to like a lot more than I ultimately did.

Roses of the Prophet Mohammad.

That's what Iranian bakers in Tehran are now now calling danishes, according to this BBC story.