And Then There's This to Cheer You Up The Columbia Journalism Review slags its own university for its attempt to manipulate the media.

Key quote: "PR is PR, we concede, but Columbia is the home of the Pulitzers, a top journalism school, and CJR itself. It should know better. Even its flacks should know better."

Writing like that takes some guts. Good for CJR. I wonder if such in-house honesty would be tolerated at Harvard, where media manipulation is standard operating procedure.  ¶ 11:44 AM