From the BBC:

Foreign journalists covering China's annual parliament session are being allowed for the first time to interview lawmakers and political advisers directly.

Chinese official media are touting this as a sign of the country's growing transparency to the world's press ahead of next year's Olympic Games.

China's domestic media, by contrast, face growing censorship and restrictions.

The government is reasserting control over journalists who have become less compliant.

Air travel is seen as one of the very worst contributors to global warming. The Conservative Party in Britain is proposing new taxes on flights and is about to ask the public what they think.

BBC World Tonight editor Alistair Burnett on a question in his shop about covering the climate change issue.

NYT public editor Byron Calame on the black hole of coverage at that publication regarding the scandal uncovered at the Walter Reed military hospital by the Washington Post. Actually, he has other examples where the NYT has fumbled the ball.

While CBC has had an online presence for about a decade, there is really nothing about it in the Broadcast Act, which was passed in 1991. Parliament aims to do something about, but what?

This is a catchy little tune by an Israeli band called Teapacks that's causing some aggro for the EuroVision 2007 organizers:

The Associated Press got its hands on a draft of the forthcoming IPCC report on the impact of climate change. To summarize, climate change having an impact now, and those impacts will worsen.

(Ding, ding ding! This is the 4,000th post of this blog!)