· The New York Times fires a stringer because of his shady past as a — gasp! — AIDS activist ten years ago. [Duncan Osborne]
· When rich white men buy magazines and newspapers: an anthropological study. [Jack Shafer]
· Thus sayeth the Times ombudsman: don't whore up your stories on the cover of the magazine. (We would say the same thing to NY mag for their use last week of "scare Courier," the classic ploy of using a typewriter-like font to indicate seriousness, academic scandal, or maybe that the cover was mocked up using a rickety old Remington.) [Dan Okrent]