The release of the NIE throwing cold water on oft-repeated claims of a rampant Iranian nuclear weapons program has chastened public officials and policymakers who have promoted this line for years. Gaining little attention so far: Many in the media have made these same claims, often extravagantly.

While U.S. newsprint consumption fell again in October, the decline in newsprint prices appeared to have stopped this month and could be improving.

Everyone remembers the screaming headlines the day after September 11, 2001. But a look at a front page from the morning of the terror attacks really reveals what we have lost.

This month I'm going to talk about my company, the Enthusiast Group. I haven't mentioned it much in this column, for obvious conflict of interest reasons. But earlier this month my business partner, board of directors and I decided to close down the business, so that reason for silence is gone.

A fair portion of the ludicrous new Todd Haynes movie inspired by Bob Dylan, "I'm Not There," shows him sparring with the press, one British reporter in particular. The truth is even more biting than this fiction.

An Inter American Press Association delegation, led by Earl Maucker, finds news media fear and loathing for Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez ahead of a Dec. 2 vote that could enthrone him -- and his distaste for an independent press -- for life.