From the Salon blurb: The success of the documentary Loose Change spotlights the thousands of online sleuths who believe the U.S. government was behind the terror attacks -- to get gold, justify war, or serve Satan.

Update: Brett Lamb has a post that breaks out the part about the dueling conspiracy theorists! :)

From the BBC:

Reports in the Swedish media identified the journalist as Palestinian-born Rachid Alhajeh, 61.

They say he is being questioned over a 10-year-old interview with an asylum-seeking Syrian on Swedish TV.

A spokeswoman for Sweden's foreign ministry told AFP news agency it had not yet been informed of the nature of the charges against the journalist.

From the BBC:

Al-Dustour chief editor Ibrahim Issa and reporter Sahar Zaki were found guilty of insulting and harming the president and the Egyptian people.

In April the paper reported on a legal case against the president accusing him of misusing public money during the privatisation of state-owned companies.

The man who filed the lawsuit, Said Abdullah, was also given a year's jail.

The three were also fined 10,000 Egyptian pounds ($1,743, £956), and were freed on bail pending a review by an appeal court.

Two years ago the president promised to abolish prison sentences for publishing offences but the new legislation has not yet been adopted.

Al-Dustour is an independent weekly paper which returned to newspaper stands last year after a seven-year ban for criticising the government.

Mr Issa, who did not attend the hearing, said the sentences showed the Egyptian government was not serious about recent promises of democratic reform in the 75m-population state.

"This is a severe slap in the face to all those who advocate democracy and freedom of expression in Egypt," Mr Issa told the Associated Press news agency.

Two Nigerian journalists face jail sentences of up to two years if they are convicted of "sedition" over writing and talking about the new plane of the country's president.

The Beeb has come up with a new way to consume the time of their senior editors as the British public broadcasters strives to become "the most open and accountable news organisation in the world."

A disquieting trend for traditional U.S. broadcasters: Advance ad sales are down for the second year in a row, and that dastardly new media is to blame.

Dubya, Dick "Duck!" Cheney and Treasury Secretary John Snow all came out with guns blazing on Monday against the decision by some U.S. newspapers, most notably the NYT, to report on a secret program to monitor ...   more »

Given the furor over spying on financial transaction information (see above and this), Democracy Now! asks some disquieting questions about whether the Total Information Awareness program ever went away.

From the Democracy Now! blurb: The Buffalo News has revealed that a former spokesman for President Bush has been encouraging U.S. newspapers to run news stories from Iraq written by two combat veterans who are now embedded reporters in Iraq. The veterans are from a pro-war group called Vets for Freedom that has ties to the Republican Party.