Town Hall

"Suck it up," an editorial in the Wall Street Journal seems to tell WSJ staffers: "Those of us who extol the virtues of Joseph Schumpeter's "creative destruction" for others can't complain when it sweeps through our own industry." The piece -- in the context, of course, of the journal's mooted sale to Rupert Murdoch or some other bidder -- goes on to discuss the role of the Bancroft family as owners, and tout the WSJ as standing above other big newspapers in the U.S. in the journalistic independence of its editorial page...

The Washington Post's Gene Weingarten outsources himself. Using web resources only, he reports on some sort of Indian political meeting with some sort of people in some sort of strange clothes, who made lots of some sort of strange noise.

If you're a newspaper publisher in India he'll sell you the rights to his story for "the surprisingly affordable price of 80 rupees, or about two bucks."

AP is teaming up with a tech firm in an effort to gain more rights control over its digital content. Will the new technology be affordable for small media? ALSO B.C. newspaper files a complaint against cop who posed as journalist; Media prof calls for CRTC head's resignation.

The Associated Press reports on filmaker Spike Lee lamenting the shortage of black sports writers in America.