By Frances Robles, Miami Herald Freedom of Information gets 'kidnapped' along with Honduras president Manuel Zelaya .

By Jake Coyle, AP Twitter: CNN of social media or rumor mill?

By Norman Soloman The conventional wisdom of press and state insists that the US war effort must do more than go on - it must escalate - in the name of human decency.

By Glenn Greenwald, Salon NPR's "torture" ban and its Ombudsman's incoherent defense of it has now turned into a significant controversy for NPR -- and rightfully so.

By David Carr, The New York Times. Vibe Magazine folds after 16 years of hip hop and R&B influence.

By Antonia Senior, Times Online Can the online generation expect everything from music to newspapers to be free? Two leading authors furiously disagree.

By Ladane Nasseri, Bloomberg Iran says a reporter for Newsweek confessed that Western Media helped incite election protests.

According to multiple tweets, actor Jeff Goldblum has died. But wait, Jeff Goldblum interrupts Stephen's report on the death of Jeff Goldblum.

America Is In Hock To The World And We Have To Accept The New Reality

By Damian Shaibi, Journalism.co.uk New report shows audience lost trust in main stream media.

By Andy Sennitt, Radio Netherlands News broadcasting company forced to shut down after kidnapping of Honduras President.

By Russell Adams, The Wall Street Journal Gannett Co., the largest U.S. newspaper publisher by daily circulation, will cut between 1,000-2,000 jobs due to revenue decline.

By Jonathan Martin, Politico A hard-hitting piece on Sarah Palin in the new Vanity Fair has touched off a blistering exchange of insults among high-profile Republicans over last year's GOP ticket.

By Media Bistro Cable ratings show Fox reigns supreme over other news networks.

By Smoking Gun A member of Howard Stern's "wack pack" was cited for violating federal court rules by recording the sentencing hearing of swindler Bernard Madoff.

The modern world has become a world where lies become true. And facts alone will be powerless to thwart the mendacity spun out through billions of dollars in corporate advertising, lobbying and control of traditional sources of information.

Al Jazeera looks at how Chinese citizens are using the internet to fight corruption.

By Mark Sweney, The Guardian Barack Obama election work hailed for mix of new media, community and TV advertising at Cannes Lions awards.

By Anna Johnson, AP The Iranian protesters sneak their cell phones onto the streets and hit record, frantically trying to evade being caught or beaten.

By Tom Rosenstiel, Paul Hitlin, and Mahvish Shahid Khan, PEJ Even by midweek, the media had begun to shift focus from protests in Iran to a political sex scandal in South Carolina. By the time the week ended, focus on Michael Jackson's passing overwhelmed all other media stories.