Electric Josh

Cursor (in the sidebar) points us to an account (scroll halfway down) of how Deborah Norville, considered a journalist for some reason, stole a story from The Onion (also in the sidebar), presented it as real news, and, of course, didn't bother to mention where she'd plagiarized the story from.
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Two Timeses' and two Posts' predictable coverage of the 9/11 commission hearings. "...It could be mere coincidence the majority of reporters whose work we examined chose approaches that corresponded to the leanings of their own newspaper's editorial page. But we doubt it."
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Something else to put on the now prohibitively long recreational reading list: Free Culture, by Larry Lessig.

All creative works—books, movies, records, software, and so on—are a compromise between what can be imagined and what is possible—technologically and legally. For more than two hundred years, laws in America have sought a balance between rewarding creativity and allowing the borrowing from which new creativity springs. The original term of copyright set by the Constitution in 1787 was seventeen years. Now it is closer to two hundred. Thomas Jefferson considered protecting the public against overly long monopolies on creative works an essential government role. What did he know that we’ve forgotten?"