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Another Sulzberger Youngster Makes Good (Gawker)
Ben Dolnick's first novel, Zoology, was published last month, and it's about an 18-year-old boy from Chevy Chase, Md. (where Dolnick is from, too!) who goes to work at the Central Park Zoo. It probably helps that Dolnick's mom, Lynn Dolnick, is Arthur "Pinch" Sulzberger Jr.'s cousin. Also, she sits on the board of the New York Times Company. Not that the Times, which seems to get its panties in a bunch about conflicts of interest and disclosures and the like, mentioned that. Page Six "The purpose of such disclosure is to highlight potential conflicts of interest and there was none. He is the author of a book. Members of the Ochs-Sulzberger family have no more or no less opportu- nity to appear in the pages of the Times," said Times PR flack Catherine Mathis.

Media 'Loathes' Gore? (The Nation)
Eric Alterman: The book version of Al Gore's An Inconvenient Truth and his newest tome, The Assault on Reason, are runaway bestsellers. He is a contender for this year's Nobel Peace Prize. And time has more than borne out the harsh assessments he has offered of George W. Bush over the past seven years. And yet the media remains hostile towards him.

Going Down a News Rabbit Hole in China (Time)
For a long time, there seemed to be only two kinds of print journalists in Canada: those who worked for Conrad Black and those who were going to work for Conrad Black. Now, as he awaits a Chicago jury's verdict on what prosecutors claim was a $60 million fraud scheme, Canadian coverage of the trial has illuminated just how large a shadow he still casts on the news-gathering profession.

China Offers Journalists a Major Opportunity (Marketwatch)
Jon Friedman: "China is very concerned with how the rest of the world perceives it," BusinessWeek's Brian Bremner said. "The country will want very much to show that the China of Mao's impoverished peasants is over. They want to command the respect of the rest of the world and reimage, or rebrand, the country as the ascendant economic power of the 21st century."

Going Down a News Rabbit Hole in China (CSM)
Peter Ford: Sometimes you come across a story that sounds too good to be true. When that happens in China, where the authorities keep a tight grip on the media — and when the news first appears on the Internet, a hotbed of intentionally spread lies — I have learned to ask two questions right off the bat. Is it really true? And regardless of how true it is, why are we hearing about it now?

Extra! Extra! McClatchy for Sale? (CNNMoney/Media Biz)
Paul La Monica: Are investors betting that Dow Jones isn't the only newspaper publisher on the shopping block? Shares of McClatchy, which just acquired Knight-Ridder last year, surged as much as 7.8 percent on Wednesday without any evident news. McClatchy has not been the subject of rampant takeover scuttlebutt before, so the stock's move is curious to say the least.

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