On the Media this week couldn't resist the post-Thanksgiving pun, when Bob Garfield (do we have to call him co-host every week?) went slightly outside the usual Mideast sphere for a visit to Turkey, where he revealed that the press still isn't completely free -- though things are better.

Ana Marie Cox (still funny for us to hear the Wonkette referred to as Time.com) expounded on the nuance behind the election headlines: some of the Dems elected were conservative, and the all-important "swing voters weren't thinking so much about the Iraq war; they were thinking about wanting a change for a lot of different reasons," like corruption (which you already know if you paid attention).

And a couple of reruns, one on the create-a-pundit industry of media coaches by John Solomon, and a another from New Yorker Jay Rosen, speaking about "legacy media … saddled with an outdated or heavy infrastructure in an age when to be nimbler and lighter might be a lot better."