Media The P.U.-litzers

A tongue-in-cheek, fingers-holding-nose look at some of the stinkiest journalism of the past year.
Coulter is a best-selling author who likes to attack the news media for supposed left-wing bias and irresponsibility. During an August interview with the New York Observer, she said: ‘My only regret with Timothy McVeigh is he did not go to the New York Times Building.’
· Irony [Media Beat]

Internet Ga-ga over Google

Typed anything into the Google search engine lately? Your query and millions like it are being logged and the result is a fascinating insight into what the world is thinking.
· Logged words [NY Times via SMH]

O'Barrell Of Wishes I Have A Dream

Traditionally, this is the time of year when resolutions are broken and our dreams of a fresh start are flushed unsentimentally down the pan. A mere five days into 2003 and already our resolve is starting to weaken, our bottle beginning to go. We start furtively to smoke again, gorge on chocolate, chips, Kentucky Fried Chicken, jump in the car when we intended to walk, slump in front of soap operas when we vowed that if Ken Barlow ever appeared on our screen again we would smash it to smithereens. As someone famously said, the best laid plans of mice and men have a terrible habit of going to pot.
Before I die I would like to abolish poverty as well as popular elections and introduce a democratic jury system for the future senators of Czechoslovakia and Australia.
· Ream of Dreams [Sunday Scottish Herald]