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Media Blog reader Bruce Kesler sent me a link to this explication of the FEC debate over whether to regulate bloggers (mentioned here yesterday). The following passage summarizes the dispute rather well:

But, [Institute for Politics, Democracy and the Internet director Carol] Darr sees potential danger:

Capt. William Guenther in Baghdad:

Sir, I hoping that you could possibly help me with this. Maybe you can’t, but I’ll have gotten it off my chest. I am an Army officer that is just beginning a year long tour in Iraq, as an advisor with the Iraqi Special Police Commandos. While I have every reason to believe that I will return home safety in eleven months, my eyes are also open to the possibility of that not being the case.

The reason I am writing you is that I have just read your article about what Susan Paynter wrote about the Marine “kidnapping” in Seattle. At the end of your article, you mentioned that you were somewhat taken aback by the fact that just a week or so earlier she had written a tribute to those who had lost a loved one. I went to her paper’s Web site to read that article. Sure enough there it was: another story about a soldier, or their family, as victim. And typically they are portrayed as a victim of George Bush or Donald Rumsfeld. In and of itself that isn’t a problem, but in so many cases that is all soldiers over here are to the elite: victims

As I mentioned earlier, the quantity and quality of the e-mails I

Cathy Seipp has the best analysis I

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Paul Farhi reports in the Washington Post that PBS has updated its editorial standards and will hire an ombudsman to handle complaints about the network

Matt Welch at Reason reports the resignation of Bradley Smith, the FEC Commissioner who just last Monday denounced a series of proposed regulations on bloggers in this interview on Tech Central Station.

The proposed rules have drawn opposition from both left- and right-wing bloggers, because they would extend the McCain-Feingold regulations to any bloggers who support or attack candidates for political office, post ads for candidates

This blog has been at the center of a recent debate over skepticism after I reported that CNN

I had the following e-mail exchange with Media Blog reader Clyde Boyd, in regards to my article “Recruiting Facts” on the NRO homepage today. Clyde wrote:

Actually, the real story here isn

As the debate over the energy bill drones on in the Senate, the topic of global warming has made resurgence in major American newspapers. Last Wednesday, the New York Times featured a front-page story about a Bush aide who marked up climate-change reports to better reflect administration positions on global warming. Most of the time, these minor changes simply toned down enthusiastic appraisals of global climate-change models–models that many climatologists have called unreliable. It didn

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Last Friday I promised to follow a story about a Seattle Post-Intelligencer column that slammed the Marines. You can find my follow-up on the NRO homepage here.

Pictures of Cohen are here and here. He wasn’t exactly off security’s radar.

Friday afternoon, blogger Will Franklin sent me an e-mail with a link to a post on his blog willisms.com that told the story of a dispute between Exxon-Mobil and the New York Times over an editorial that appeared in the Times May 22 titled,

My post on Bob Franken

Several overseas readers wrote in over the weekend to take issue with my positive review of CNN

I wanted to create a category for