Houston Chronicle Publishes Special Edition for Enron Verdict (NYT)
The headline announcing the Enron verdict yesterday was short and to the point — "Guilty! Guilty!" — much like the "extra" the newspaper rushed onto the newsstand at 2 p.m. to proclaim the fates of the former chief executives of Enron, Kenneth L. Lay and Jeffrey K. Skilling.

Is Time Mag Pundit Lineup Unbalanced? (The Nation)
Eric Alterman: In recent years the mag has morphed into a kind of glossy sibling to the Wall Street Journal. Its news pages remain home to generally reliable, often excellent, political reporting. But its opinion pages are filled with vitriol, anger and abuse, almost always directed at liberals.

Are Washington's Political Reporters 'Lapdogs'? (Slate)
Jack Shafer: Eric Boehlert's new book's thesis is that the mainstream news media "abdicated their Fourth Estate responsibility to report without fear or favor and to ask uncomfortable questions to people in power." It's such a preposterous and overreaching thesis, I refuse buy it.

Insecure Brian Williams Only One Who Doesn't Trust Brian Williams For Latest News (The Onion)
Satire: Although he is the most watched and widely recognized newscaster on American network television, NBC Nightly News anchor Brian Williams admitted that he would look to "just about anyone else" for in-depth analysis of the latest national and international news before himself.

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