Usually the Journal editorial page is gazing at Russia with Palin, but it's nice to see an opponent of insurance actually offer some alternatives. Not quite buying a lot of the ideas, especially the one that would allow citizens to form their own risk pool. (Haven't they read Bowling Alone?). But with Obama having abandoned a single payer system, there are a lot more options on the table than the Congressional Democrats probably want to admit in public.

Refresing. Presidential management styles are rarely questioned. And after all, this is what these men actually are on a day-to-day basis. But the Journal gets carried away letting their sources connect management style with policy outcome. Poor management means your employees don't like you, not necessarily that the results are poor. Just ask my boss.

About as in-depth of a story as you can get about the back channels that are probably suring up this health care bill. And we have to give credit to Billy Tauzin for his shameless self promotion. This story brought to you by BigPharma.

Cohn, who is at the forefront of TNR's pace-setting health care coverage, does a good job of summing up the opposition Obama is facing in Washington. No more, no less.

How many Brits are covered? Oh ya, ALL OF THEM.

Puts to rest the latest crank Palin is peddling. But the real question is where this guy has been for the Republicans. Are they disenchanted with people who have actually read the bill?

f Froomkin's smoke-filled industrial pharma lobbyist black box complex is a scary place. What any of this means requires you to be fully emerced in leftish critiques. Froomkin yearned to repeat what Chomsky explains better and others provide more actual reporting? I'm so jealous, Dan.

Gads! The Globe waded out of the blue lights into the murky mob, and found on the other side of the street real opponents of ye government's care of health package. Obama offered nothing new, so where's the story? Tough call. Protesters have been getting most of the coverage lately, which seems unfair because they're spreading lies. The Globe offered a bit of the wit that has made them interesting, but none of the really infuriating reasons that they're so opposed to a plan that would probably make sure the one member of their family that isn't covered could have health care.

Bahkt gives us a realistic perspective, but the side that really tells us how the two sides feel about normal people is Shamin Khan, the man mentioned at the end of the story who was "victimised by both sides." The reality of this war lies somewhere within his story. But that's probably for the Independent.

Palin could learn a thing or two from her (equally bored and lying) fanclub about fighting back -- the REAL reason she wasn't ready for the big show. Not quite sure if Libit ever really proves his thesis that the bloggers are hurt by her exit. Most of them seem to be set up by association. And, to be far too long-winded(as journonerds tend to be where Palin is concerned), you know I have to take issue with the idea that the blogs moved Palin to the tip of Steve Schimdt's tongue. During the campaign, the New Yorker told us we have Bill Kristol to thank for that.

The Journal wins the shoe leather prize because they actually bothered to call to get comments from associates of the people arrested. And for it, they were rewarded: "Mr. Van Pelt was arrested today and is out of the office."

It's hardly news that the health care legislation took longer than expected, just ask the Senate secretary. The real news is probably taking place in the cloak room, which the Monitor doesn't seem interested in here.

Sure European energy companies want energy pipelines from North Africa. They want them from Russia too. Pity those pesky other countries are standing in the way, whcih we never hear a thing about here. And the key question, even if you're writing from a solely business perspective: Will ME/NA leaders ever accept any threat to their stranglehold on power brought to them exclusively by oil.

Mom and Pop be damned (and not even interviewed!), small business is now the province of...biotech firms and venture capital firms? Mandelbaum tries to engage all the issues with logic, but of course the invisible hand of lobbyists and has his head spinning. Mine is too.

In Jarvis' news ecosystem, the prey do all the work for no money so the benevolent predator can supply them with the tools they need -- exposure and money. It's the first stab at journobiology I've seen, and I think the nascent field needs to review 10th grade biology before it makes it into classrooms at Berkeley, Columbia, Northwestern, and Mizzou. The key rule of the food chain is that the predator can always dominate due to its self-imposed superiority over all lower creatures.

I don't think anyone reading a magazine for the journalism industry would argue against the journalism industry's existence. Telling your base exactly what they want to hear by saying nothing at all? I feel like I've heard this before...

The Post provides the Obama party line context that F-22s were a Soviet relic. Missing is the crucial context that the billions for the F-22 is merely a drop in the Pentagon's budget, and, according to the New York Times, 2,400 F-35s are on their way anyway. That's right. 2,400. So why was this vote so important? Because Obama said so.

Durbin states the obvious. The Hill would've been better served by looking at the Senate schedule instead of asking him, AND they let him get an unchallenged jab in against Republicans.

The Internet business is different than the newspaper business. Good point. Replace newspaper execs with...no one? Not so sure. Even Joshua Micah Marshall reserves the right to pull the trigger.

Clever one that Leah Betancourt. Turned her pitch about crowdfunding into the same old story about citizen journalism. The section that actually focuses on crowdfunding at the top is informative, but the idea of a sustainable model isn't even necessary to bring up. After all, where would PBS be without the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation.