Washington Post TV critic Tom Shales sticks up for Dan Rather, who got into it with his ex-employer CBS News earlier this week.

Outgoing British Prime Minister Tony Blair has given a speech in which he excoriated the current state of the British press. Media critic Jack Shafer wants Blair, a media manipulator supreme, to give him a break.

From the mind of Fox News's Bill O'Reilly: (h/t to Romenesko)

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... As a commentator, I am rooting for the Americans and British to win, because a victory is better for the USA and the world.

Now we've done hundreds of Iraq reports on this program, as you know. But we don't do the carnage du jour. We don't highlight every terrorist attack because we learn nothing from that. And that's exactly what the terrorists want us to do. I mean, come on, does another bombing in Tikrit mean anything other than war is hell? No, it does not.