A Los Angeles Times editorial knocks Google for allowing those who are being talked about on Google News (more properly, Google's Aggregation of News) to comment on that coverage. To the Times, this shows the difference between what a Google-like entity does and what newspapers and magazines do.

This has one online news critic in-digg-nant (geddit?).

An amusingly written look at the Bourne Ultimatum by the Guardian's Peter Bradshaw.

If you guessed the Beeb, you'd be right! Although probably every news organization has had someone do it.

Anyway, Pete Clifton, head of interactive news at the Beeb, holds forth about it at The Editors blog, but in a slightly more strained version of his usual jocular tone.

From the BBC:

KP Mohan was attacked as he left hospital where he was undergoing treatment after an assault by soldiers in June, the Free Media Movement said.

Sri Lankan authorities are investigating the attack in June.

Media activists say that fighting between the army and the Tamil Tigers has made the country one of the world's most dangerous places for journalists.