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Two of the biggest stories of the month landed on opposite ends of the spectrum: a national security issue that wrapped up the President and the Pulitzer, and a sensational sexual abuse scandal at one of the nation's top universities.

One day after New York Times editor Bill Keller declared that the Pulitzer Prize judges had awarded “journalism that demonstrated the press standing up to power,” conservative pundits fired back that the stories were not courageous, but treasonous.

Could it really be true? Does one network, a stodgy behemoth of media conglomeration, actually *gulp* get it?

As more and more newspapers try to carve out a spot in the blogosphere, the Online Journalism Review reports on a system designed to go the other way: bringing the blogs to papers.

Yesterday’s New York Times contained a fascinating article on the preservation and revival of early 1900s pop music, thanks to the wonders of the web.

An anonymous commenter to Paul's entry on journalism and blogging asked the following question: "Would you rather pay $4.99 for gawker mobile or $19.40 for a NY Times paper dropped on the ground floor of your building?"

All night, the Oscar telecast noted the social issues brought up by this year’s nominees. Just looking at Best Picture, you see films that confront homophobia, racism, censorship and terrorism.

With yesterday’s release of the 30th Anniversary Edition DVD of Sidney Lumet’s Network, many are noting the prophetic nature of the film.

Last Wednesday, the Sydney Morning Herald published 15 previously unreleased photos of incidents at Abu Ghraib prison. The article was in advance of a television program that aired sixty of the new photos later that night.

We were wondering to ourselves what we should write about for our first blog entry. “The Super Bowl just happened,” we said, “so we could do something on commercials. Or perhaps something from our love of tabloid headlines.