Top Items:
Saul Hansell / New York Times:
The Associated Press to Set Guidelines for Using Its Articles in Blogs — The Associated Press, one of the nation's largest news organizations, said that it will, for the first time, attempt to define clear standards as to how much of its articles and broadcasts bloggers and Web sites …
Discussion:
BuzzMachine, Outside The Beltway, Althouse, Macsmind, Scott Rosenberg's Wordyard, Gateway Pundit, Bloggasm and Marc Ambinder
RELATED:
Michael Arrington / TechCrunch:
Here's Our New Policy On A.P. stories: They're Banned — The stories over the weekend were bad enough - the Associated Press, with a long history of suing over quotations from their articles, went after Drudge Retort for having the audacity to link to their stories along with short quotations via reader submissions.
Cernig / Newshoggers.com:
AP Gets Worried — News of the Associated Press' bully-boy tactics against bloggers on Friday and the pushback Saturday and Sunday which has led a bipartisan boycott of AP to spread widely across the internet has hit the mainstream media after the weekend of bipartisan blogger buzz.
Karl / protein wisdom:
A controversial suggestion for NBC's Meet the Press — The mourning over the untimely death of Tim Russert — host of Meet the Press and Washington bureau chief of NBC News — may continue, but the Politico, the L.A. Times and BloggingStocks are just a few of the media outlets covering …
RELATED:
New York Times:
A Delegator, Obama Picks When to Take Reins — WASHINGTON — In the months leading up to Senator Barack Obama's big loss in the Pennsylvania primary, he was a detached manager: around, but not meddling. Rarely on early-morning conference calls with his senior advisers …
Discussion:
protein wisdom, Real Clear Politics, Prairie Weather, Commentary, TIME.com, Electoral-vote.com and marbury
Wall Street Journal:
Beltwaywide Financial — The Countrywide Financial sweetheart loan scandal continues to grow, spreading to Senators and other Beltway potentates. We are about to find out if Congress's passion for investigating business ethics extends to conflicts of interest and cash that involve fellow Members.
RELATED:
Michael Finnegan / Los Angeles Times:
Women voters lining up behind Obama — McCain hopes to lure Clinton loyalists. But polls show they are staying Democratic. — Marilyn Authenreith, a mother of two in North Carolina, felt strongly about supporting Hillary Rodham Clinton in the Democratic presidential primary.
Christopher Hass / Barack Obama:
Barack Obama: Father's Day Speech — Barack celebrated Father's Day today by speaking at the Apostolic Church of God in Chicago. He began by quoting the Sermon on the Mount, in which Jesus closes by saying, “Whoever hears these words of mine, and does them, shall be likened to a wise man who built his house upon a rock.”
RELATED:
Fredric U. Dicker / New York Post:
GOV BLASTS ‘NASTY’ MIKE — SHOCKING BROADSIDES BY MILD-MANNERED DAVE — Mayor Bloomberg is a nasty, untrustworthy, tan trum-prone liar who “has little use” for average New Yorkers - like the 1,500 workers who would have lost their jobs had OTB closed, a furious Gov. Paterson has said privately.
Andy McCarthy / The Corner:
A Way Forward After Last Week's Supreme Court Ruling on Enemy Combatants — While lots more gnashing of teeth is called for, I think it's extremely important that we push ahead with concrete, practical steps to prevent what could be disastrous fallout from the Supreme Court's catastrophic …
RELATED:
Ben Smith / The Politico:
Bush backer pens pro-Obama book — The conservative Evangelical biographer of George W. Bush and Tom DeLay has moved on to a new subject: Barack Obama. And his new book, due out this summer, may lend credibility to Senator Obama's bid to win Evangelical Christian voters away from the Republican Party.
Bryan Bender / Boston Globe:
Some call Georgian a good fit for Obama — Ex-Sen. Nunn an ally with defense expertise — WASHINGTON - When a newly elected Senator Barack Obama was staking out issues to champion in Congress, he sent word that he would like to meet with a former senator he had admired from afar: Sam Nunn of Georgia.
Tom Lasseter / McClatchy Washington Bureau:
U.S. abuse of detainees was routine at Afghanistan bases — KABUL, Afghanistan — American soldiers herded the detainees into holding pens of razor-sharp concertina wire, the kind that's used to corral livestock. — The guards kicked, kneed and punched many of the men until they collapsed in pain.
Paul Krugman / New York Times:
Fiscal Poison Pill — A poison pill, in corporate jargon, is a financial arrangement designed to protect current management by crippling the company if someone else takes over. — As I read the nonpartisan Tax Policy Center's analysis of the presidential candidates' tax proposals …
Michelle Malkin:
Fight Their Smears: ABC News, Bob Beckel, Time, AP, Guardian, and NYT slime the Right — Time lies. The NYTimes slimes. AP distorts. ABC News, the Guardian, and the blithering Bob Beckel have all now piled on, too. They are at it again. Smearing conservative bloggers and talk radio.
RELATED:
John Hendren / ABCNEWS:
Michelle Obama in for ‘Very Ugly Stuff’
Michelle Obama in for ‘Very Ugly Stuff’
Discussion:
The Campaign Spot, Sister Toldjah, Comments from Left Field, Gateway Pundit, Media Blog and Michelle Obama Watch
Klaus Marre / The Hill:
Gingrich: Jindal is best choice for vice president — Former House Speaker Newt Gingrich (R-Ga.) said Sunday that Louisiana Gov. Bobby Jindal “would be far and away the best candidate” to appear on the Republican presidential ticket with Sen. John McCain (Ariz.).
RELATED: