Newsweek cover flap Sklar's comments. (Huffington Post)
More puzzlers From Jay Rosen. (Romenesko Letters)
POSTED THURSDAY Royko film To be based on three columns. (Wisconsin SJ)
Losing a homeOne journo's experience. (CJR)
Newsweek's Palin cover Explained. (LAT Blogs)
LAT publisher's "treason" remark Prompts Fake LAT post. (notthelatimes.com)
Press too tough on Palin? Many say yes. (People-press.org)
POSTED WEDNESDAY Okrent's HuffPost pieceBackground story. (Portfolio.com)
People mag's Newman book "Leaves a sour taste in my mouth." (Folio)
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HOWARD KURTZ: Now, I want to understand how a columnist's mind works when you take positions, because you were chided recently for writing several times in different occasions "the next six months are crucial in Iraq," the next six months. And now you've written a column saying that Americans are simply not going to tolerate this kind of anarchy for another two years and deadlines have to be set. Were you conscious that you were now shifting your position on this?TOM FRIEDMAN: Not really. You know, the problem with analyzing the story, Howie, is that it doesn't -- everyone, first of all, this is the most polarized story I've certainly written about, so everyone wants, basically, to be proven right, OK? So the left -- people who hated the war, they want you to declare the war is over, finish, we give up. The right, just the opposite. But I've been trying to just simply track the situation on the ground. And the fact is that the outcome there is unclear, and I reflected that in my column. And I will continue to reflect.
