I just returned from a sneak preview of Brian DePalma's Redacted, and I feel compelled to warn people not to drop $12 on this film when it opens later this month, for it is one mediocre war movie.

A U.S. Marine's picture taken in Fallujah in November 2004 became one of the iconic images of the Iraq War. The man in the photo, a cigarette dangling out of his mouth, has become widely known as The Marlboro Man.

The intervening years have not been kind to Lance Cpl. James Blake Miller, who has been diagnosed with post-traumatic stress syndrome. The marines kicked him out after a violent incident. The fame that stemmed from his photo has made for even more stress on his life.

Los Angeles Times photographer Luis Sinco took the photo. This series is his follow-up on Miller.

Peter Horrocks, head of the BBC Newsroom, tells the Beeb's online audience that his department is now a converged, multimedia one in this post on The Editors blog:

Quick question: Why don't I notice the difference on the website?

The Toronto Star's Mitch Potter looks at the BBC, one of the world's great broadcasters and news organizations, albiet one that's had some missteps and is struggling with a painful restructuring.

Maclean's magazine had a big Halloween treatment of the Aspers and CanWest (h/t to Back of the Book).

These are unsettled times at CanWest as the company tries to centralize certain newspaper work and shed jobs while focusing ever more on the Internet.