"Before arriving in Doha, I had spent hours watching CNN back home, and I was sadly reminded of the network's steady decline in recent years," writes Michael Massing. "Paula Zahn looked and talked like a cheerleader for the US forces; Aaron Brown kept reaching for the profound remark without ever finding it; Wolf Blitzer politely interviewed Washington's high and mighty, seldom asking a pointed question. None of them, however, appeared on the broadcasts I saw in Doha.

In the wake of the war in Iraq, a number of questions have arisen about events during the war and Iraq's alleged possession of weapons of mass destruction and ties to Al Qaeda. Brendan Nyhan and Bryan Keefer sift through the evidence to date and attempt to separate spin from reality regarding events including the looting of Iraq's National Museum and the capture and rescue of Private Jessica Lynch.

"Public relations was a game," former Hill & Knowlton chair Dick Cheney (no relation to the vice president) told the New York Times' Geraldine Fabrikant. "It was a fun game, but it was really just a game," said Cheney, who left PR to become a psychoanalyst. Cheney worked for H&K, one of the world's largest PR firms, on business takeovers between 1960 and 1993. Comments on the O'Dwyer's PR Daily website take issue with Cheney's career move.