Tim Challes, who writes a lot of book reviews and who is busy writing his own book, noticed the  USA Today article on bloggers being sued.

Micheal Geist, looks at Canadian libel law and free speech issues (example)

Since blogs are considered media - here is a quick primer on obscenity, hate discrimination, libel and defamation.

With thousands of cyber hours devoted to the latest scandal in Washington this past week, this is one of the clearest statements and opinion pieces I’ve seen. Leonard Pitts in The Miami Herald

Keith Olberman of MSNBC - his writing is punchy broadcast style. On some of the lies George W. Bush told this week.

There is a good post over at Street Prophets which looks at the New York Times article on evangelical panic about the teen drain and culture and religion.

The post that spawned that one is informative - and the comments underneath read like sitting at the edge of a group of friends at the coffee shop and  getting to listen in. Some good common sense stuff, a nice blend of voices, many of whom share their church horror stories, what they went through as teens and what they’ve learned about hypocrisy.

Bible Belt blogger says that according to the President of the National Association of Evangelicals (Ted Haggard), The New York Times was duped on the declining teen story.