Bits and pieces this morning about media, from ethics to moves to changes in technology...

Actually, speaking of technology, Technology Review suffers the retraction blues.

MSN is beta-testing a new paid search-engine which will allegedly provide info that Google and Yahoo don't. Such as the contents of your SOUL. (AdAge) Meanwhile, AOL tries to keep up by making paid content free. (LA Times)

NPR's journalistic standards held under the microscope. (LA Times)

Jeff Gannon: Don't call him Jeff Guckert. (NYT)

Cargo, Giant to revamp, possibly not coincidentally to help sales. (Mediaweek)

Judith Miller: ready for jail. (Possibly because she saw how good Martha looked when she came out?) (UC Berkeley News)

The main bias in the news: skepticism of whoever is in power, says WashPost reporter Dana Milbank.

Sportswriter who broke the Mark McGuire "andro" story thinks sportswriters screwed up on the steroids story. (E&P)