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Politicians and celebrities rarely make good bloggers.
They’re not interested enough in what other people are thinking The blogosphere is a pure market—but one in which no money changes hands. If you can afford the bandwidth and your ego is strong enough, it doesn’t matter whether anybody wants to read what you have to say. Why Oh Why Can't We Have a Better Politicians & Press Corps?

Get Me Rewrite!
Right now Amerika is going through an Orwellian moment. On both the foreign policy and the fiscal fronts, the Bush administration is trying to rewrite history, to explain away its current embarrassments.
· One of Krugman's best and most hard-hitting columns

It's a cardinal rule of journalism: do not disclose the identity of someone who gives you information in confidence. As a staunch believer in this rule for decades, I have surprised myself lately by concluding that journalists' proud absolutism on this issue — particularly in a case involving the syndicated columnist Robert Novak — is neither as wise nor as ethical as it has seemed.
[ courtesy of Never burn a source: The Journalist and the Whistle-Blower]
· Participatory journalism [ courtesy of About Last Night]
· GWB MBA
· WMD
· Australia's most respected real estate writer's kidnap cover-up: Sunday Tele's editor, Jeni Cooper
· I had no outlet for the hate and venom that consumed me. Now I am able to spew to a national audience