Often, there seems to be a sort of unspoken agreement between the political and reporting classes to wink, nod and let some obvious stretches of the imagination slide when news organizations run with some item that was obviously planted.

Something more than simple subjectivity seems to be at work in the New York Times‘ notable books of the year list: Six of the 61 nonfiction books were authored by Times staffers, and another four by regular contributors.

When an organization whose goal it is to revolutionize the way in which people receive information asks its readers “What should we be?” more than a week after its much-hyped re-launch, odds are it’s in trouble.

The New York Observer gives us a Judith Miller article so counterintuitive as to be downright silly.

How real is Howard Kurtz’s conflict of interest between his roles at CNN and the Washington Post?