Rupert Murdoch: "I believe too many of us editors and reporters are out of touch with our readers." I looked on Editor & Publisher to see if they referred to Murdoch's speech, but found no mention of it.

Read in USA Today (April 20, 2004) how Iraqis are enjoying their new-found freedom of expression.

The thing I always liked about newspapers was their honesty and independence. They have always stood for freedom and resisted authority and I've always liked their style. Because of this, there is something about the open source movement that reminds me of newspapers - there is that same feisty independence and genetic mistrust of authority that share a common sensibility.

Why newspapers should care about PRISM and the Semantic Web