The Pew Research Center for the People and the Press' recent survey of nearly 550 national and local media workers finds journalists "unhappy with the way things are going in their profession these days." The Washington Post's Howard Kurtz writes, "Two-thirds of national media staffers, and 57 percent of the locals, believe that profit pressures are seriously hurting news coverage.

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The Denver Post reports that one "hallmark" of the Bush administration is a rapidly spinning revolving door. There are "more than 100 high-level officials ... who [now] govern industries they once represented as lobbyists, lawyers or company advocates. ...