Eric Alterman writes about the decline of the newspaper industry and how the Internet, specifically blogs, are pushing them out.
5 signs you are watching a Wes Anderson movie.
From Hobo Stripper, I learned that "the difference between a five dollar coke whore and a thousand dollar an hour stripper is a rhinestone necklace and a good vocabulary". (Thanks to Amy)
Three posts on the media and China. Sam contrasts Western and Chinese media coverage of Tibet. The Monkey Cage discusses a new study that finds that the Chinese media are increasingly covering bad events. James Fallows looks at Chinese papers and finds very little related to Tibet.