GOOD BYLINE Politkovskaya

• Muckraking martyr: The story that cost murdered Russian journalist Anna Politkovskaya her life is published in Novaya Gazeta. The story focuses on Russian authorities' atrocities in Chechnya and includes stills from a video showing assaults on two people.

• The "unacceptable" president : George W. Bush has found 37 things "unacceptable" or "not acceptable" in published or broadcast press statements this year, twice the number of "unacceptable" events in 2005, four times as many as 2004. More than an indication of his limited vocabulary, "unacceptable" implies an implicit threat of military action by a president, the Washington Post reports.

• To the Bat plane!: Desperate for a new angle, TV reporter after reporter takes to the sky to report the Cory Lidle crash story that's already been well covered from the ground.

• TimesSelects...: Andrew Rosenthal, who will take over The New York Times editorial page from Gail Collins, who's off for a six-month book hiatus. Not surprisingly, Rosenthal is excited about the Internet: "I'd like to be a little bit more reactive and quick to react to events online. We'd like to look at ways we can use our online opinion pages to start conversations," he told Editor & Publisher.

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