Flit

Samarra bridge-pushing update

In other news you haven't read on Buzzmachine, they're exhuming Zeyad's cousin.

Frontiers of PR

President Bush continues to set new standards for public accountability that other PR professionals can only watch and hope to emulate.

Seriously, these things do have trickle-down effects. Any significant decline in public-sector accountability makes life oh so much easier for people like me who do PR for government in our day jobs. Everytime Bush and/or his team says "screw off" successfully, we all are given a tiny fraction more license to treat the press similarly in our own lives. I'd say this sort of thing is symptomatic of a general decline in the media's power to demand accountability unto themselves, across North America.