Facebook's outrages against privacy are legion, and this is an excellent round-up.

Although a story written by the former editor about one of the Chronicle's reporters is not ideal, Bronstein has gone out of his way to give the White House an opportunity to explain its loathsome, censorious behavior. This incident should receive more coverage than it has gotten.

Good round-up of liberal opinion on the FCC's half-hearted efforts to preserve net neutrality.

A workmanlike overview regarding a political dispute over the Obama administration's drilling moratorium.

A well-reported explanation of how the Republican ascendancy could spell the end of the New START Treaty.

Through dogged reporting, examples and quotes from the principals themselves, Leibovich shows Mike Allen and his colleagues at Politico to be a malign force on Washington, encouraging political journalism that is superficial, insidery, and deeply biased toward power and the status quo.

An important story on how European countries, especially Denmark, are using high-tech incinerators to turn trash into energy in an environmentally sound way. As the journalist notes, political considerations make it almost impossible to build such incinerators in the United States.

A good summary of the dubious safety record of Massey Energy, which owns the West Virginia coal mine that was the scene of a multiple-fatality accident earlier this week.

An in-depth interview with two people who are knowledgeable about Massey's mining operations, although neither was involved in the fatal explosion. The interview raises an important question: Given how many times Massey has been fined for safety violations, is it seen within the company as merely the price of doing business?

Despite making some valuable observations about the dubious manner in which Massey has conducted its mining operations, the author falls short by straining to make a connection between the fatal explosion and campaign-finance reform.

A fascinating look at former Newark mayor Sharpe James, who was released from prison earlier this week. Extremely well-written, good eye for detail.

An interesting look at the re-election prospects of Massachusetts Gov. Deval Patrick, who is showing signs of viability despite an exceedingly rocky first term.

This is a very poor piece of journalism. It is accurate (presumably), but it is not true. Murdoch is quoted as saying that newspapers must stop Google and Bing from displaying full articles for free -- something that, in fact, does not happen. The reporter leaves out critical context by failing to note that Murdoch is describing a problem that doesn't exist.

A good story that is somewhat undermined by paying insufficient attention to the question of where the power needed to run electric cars will come from. It could turn out that this supposedly green alternative will be powered by coal and oil.

This is a blatantly partisan appeal by Dan Quayle to bring tea-partiers into the Republican Party. He asserts several falsehoods as facts, the most blatant of which is that Democrats have presided over "federal control over health care."

A thoughtful essay by the publisher of the Batavian, a well-regarded community news site, on why he believes that real names should be required in online comments to news stories.This should be must reading for every news-site owner and blogger.

A fine essay by one of our leading media thinkers. He reaches for the grandeur of his essay "Newspapers and Thinking the Unthinkable" (see Links) and falls short. Nevertheless, this is a worthwhile read on the slow-motion collapse of the television business.

Yet another story on the collapsing newspaper business. This one gets higher marks than some because it acknowledges corporate debt as a substantial reason for the current mess. I've docked it slightly on "informative" because of its superficial discussion of troubles at the Times Co.'s Boston Globe.

An outstanding piece of journalism on unemployment in Iowa. It backs up its anecdotes with hard data to a degree that is unusual. At least in the online version of this story, the photography should have received better play.

Despite my high regard for Nate Silver, this tells us very little. The numbers are mildly interesting, the analysis less so.

An important, undercovered topic. Unfortunately, the author does not synthesize his source materials into a coherent whole, opting to quote large chunks of legalese.

A round-up of repression by the governments of several former Soviet republics, including the strategically important, partly free republic of Kazakhstan. Stern offers a good overview of an undercovered topic.