A Growing Separation of Press and State (WaPo)
Dana Milbank: The White House press corps spent its first day in exile yesterday, banished from the White House for the first time since the John Adams presidency. As if to deepen the isolation, press secretary Tony Snow adopted the Borscht Belt comics' practice of answering questions with questions.

Online TV Frenzy (BusinessWeek)
As networks and studios become more comfortable with selling content online — and cashing checks from online advertisers — analysts say many sites could morph again from stores to stand-alone stations where reruns and original content are streamed for free.

Shashank Bengali: Beirut Via Nairobi (SAJA Forum)
A foreign correspondent for the McClatchy group, Bengali is in his fifth week of covering the war (and now cease-fire) in Israel and Lebanon. He joined Knight Ridder's Nairobi bureau last year, upon completing a Master's in Public Policy at Harvard.

Us and Disney Never Compromised Each Other (MIN)
That Jann Wenner stuck to his Rolling Stone journalistic principles proved beneficial for Us Weekly once Bonnie Fuller made it "hot" following her February 2002 hire and Janice Min made it "hotter" since her July 2003 succession.

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