Condy Rice’s lies or the softballs and lack of followups by the journalist, in this case Ed Bradley.

on the weblogs-as-journalism question, a study on the subject has finally been published. The good folks at the Shorenstein Center at the Kennedy School of Government have published a case study about the Trent Lott affair. As many will recall, Senate majority leader Lott resigned following comments he made at Sen Strom Thurmond’s birthday party, comments that initially weren’t widely covered in the press.

revisits the loss of the Eldred case before the Supreme Court last year. An astonishingly personal reflection on a difficult loss.

has posted his notes from Cory Doctorow’s talk today at ETCon. Cory’s talk was about ebooks, and his comments will surprise many; though not those who read Cory regularly.

and it’s somewhat heartening to note that at least in the weblog world, no one doubts that the boob flash was staged. The interesting thing, though, has been the MTV and CBS reaction – they’re clearly lying, and blatantly so.

But it underlines a reality that I don’t know many people really get. ALL news about the entertainment industry is nothing but blatant lies, deception, and creative publicist media placements. I mean everyone knows that ET stories are bought and sold like nothing other than ads. But I’m talking everything, no exceptions.

The Britney/Madonna kiss? Staged. Paris Hilton “private” sex video? Staged and widely uploaded on the QT. The restaurant fight between this week’s popstars? Cooked up by somone’s agent. The really shocking thing is that Big Media thinks that we buy it, and that they can just issue a statement disavowing their knowledge to cleanse their rep.