The Globe and Mail's Simon Houpt rounds up recent faux news and f-up events in the U.S. media.

He kicks off with the imitation NYT, but there's more, much more.

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From AP via Google News:

A gunman on a motorcycle killed a hard-hitting Filipino radio commentator Monday in the seventh deadly attack on reporters in the Philippines this year, police said.

The gunman sped away after firing several shots at Arecio Padrigao, a commentator at Radio Natin, in front of Bukindon State University in southern Gingoog city, said police Chief Superintendent Teodorico Capuyan.

He said police were investigating.

Padrigao regularly criticized corruption in his radio show broadcast in Misamis Oriental province, about 480 miles southeast of Manila, police official Catalino Rodriguez told ABS-CBN television.

At least six other Filippino journalists have been murdered this year.

From the BBC:

Several men have gone on trial in Moscow charged with involvement in the murder of prominent Russian journalist Anna Politkovskaya in 2006.

Circuit City whacked many of its best, most experienced -- and therefore most expensive -- staff to cut costs.

The company is now bankrupt.

U.S. newspapers are doing much the same thing with their senior journalists.

From the NYT:

When Dan Rather filed suit against CBS 14 months ago — claiming, among other things, that his former employer had commissioned a politically biased investigation into his work on a “60 Minutes” segment about President Bush’s National Guard service — the network predicted the quick and favorable dismissal of the case, which it derided as “old news.”

So far, Mr. Rather has spent more than $2 million of his own money on the suit. And according to documents filed recently in court, he may be getting something for his money.