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The Audit Business

• Audit notes: Commercialization, GM and Facebook, Saverin’s taxes
• For TV, campaigns create big winners, (relative) losers Political ads may not be all “gravy” for local stations—but they’re still an awfully good deal

The Observatory Science

• Attachment parenting, detached debate Time’s titillating cover overshadows article’s substance
• The ice melt cometh But flawless coverage about happenings in Antarctica has been rare

Campaign Desk Politics & Policy

• Health costs: Is Mass. the only model? What about Vermont? (Not to mention Maryland)
• For TV, campaigns create big winners, (relative) losers Political ads may not be all “gravy” for local stations—but they’re still an awfully good deal

Behind the News The Media

• Stories I’d like to see Press-dinner proceeds, cat-and-mouse China reporting, testing the testers
• Stories I’d like to see Homeland loses focus, ditching the filibuster, unions that own big business