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Today NYT editorial, “Counterfeit News,” points back to a disturbing article from a few days ago: “Under Bush, a New Age of Pre-packaged News.” The article documents the extent to which the White House and over 20 federal agencies spent millions of dollars to produced “video news releases” which are clearly intended to appear as…

I have been contemplating launching a blog of this sort for a while. A piece in the New York Times finally convinced me to follow through (see next post). Unlike my other blog, which has basically become something between an annotated bibliography and a collection of book reviews, I hope this blog will offer my…