From Le Monde diplomatique, how to pay for a free press: In a media world with one eye on the bottom line and the other on the official line, it’s getting harder to publish or broadcast anything that doesn’t promise huge sales and attendant profits, and that doesn’t say or show what is approved. But it’s still possible (and more). An interview with The New Yorker's Hendrik Hertzberg on Bush, blogging, and what's wrong with The Washington Post. The conservative betrayed: Russell Baker reviews The Prince of Darkness: 50 Years of Reporting in Washington by Robert D. Novak. Rupert Murdoch, closet liberal: Fox News President Roger Ailes outs his boss as a Republican-hater.
