For the past two decades, the U.S. Army has been shipping out career officers for a year-long PR training at the Pittsburgh office of global PR firm Ketchum, the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette reports. "The two sides were paired through a call from the Pentagon. It seems someone thought it would be a good idea to get public relations training," the Post-Gazette's Teresa F. Lindeman writes.

"The White House is shifting James Wilkinson, who helped run the U.S./U.K. coalition communications office in the aftermath of the invasion of Afghanistan, to the Pentagon's U.S. Central Command to serve as spokesperson for Gen. Tommy Franks," O'Dwyer's PR Daily writes. "That move is a 'big signal' that the U.S. is 'getting serious' about Iraq, according to a report in The Washington Times. Wilkinson has just returned from a trip to Morocco, where he practiced his Arabic language skills on the streets.

The judge in celebrity thief Winona Ryder's shoplifting conviction has ordered that no juror speak publicly about the case for 90 days to lessen their ability to profit from appearances and interviews. Columnist George Hesselberg notes that "no juror in a movie star case would talk for free, so that means until three months are up, we won't get to know what really happened. But I was not a juror, so here is what really happened: A millionaire tried to steal some expensive clothes and got caught. She will not go to jail, even though it is suspected she has done this before.