Matt Duffy, Georgia State University Ph.D. student, discusses what he believes to be the pros and cons of the media shield law currently moving through Congress and how anonymous sources may harm the credibility of journalism. Through his doctoral research he has explored unnamed sourcing and his Web site www.anonymoussources.org reflects his findings.

Read the Matt Duffy Interview

Dr. Rande Matteson, professor at Saint Leo University, Fla., talks about how current civil and criminal laws can be used to prosecute and protect against cyberbullying. He also explains why he wrote the book "Bully Beware: How to Fight Back and Win with Florida Law on Your Side" and how the principles in the book can be applied to this online problem.

Read the Rande Matteson Interview

Margaret Lewin, MD, FACP, Medical Director of Cinergy Health, discusses the importance of vaccines and screening in preventing cervical cancer. Dr. Lewin states that the highly contagious HPV virus is to blame for most cervical cancer cases, but when detected early, many cases can be treated and cured.

Read the Margaret Lewin Interview

Matt Modleski talks about the shortage of primary care physicians in the U.S. Modleski, a healthcare consultant, states that while 60 percent of healthcare is consumed by geriatric patients, only 1 percent are geriatric specialist. He states that most of the shortages are in rural areas, but that the gap can be filled with physician extenders like NPs and PAs.

Read the Matt Modleski Interview.

Tom Bethell has an article in the current issue of American Spectator daring to examine the lack of coverage of how labor unions are affecting American society ... "The media just don't publish criticism of unions ... The main reason, I believe, is that newspaper reporters are themselves largely unionized."

Bethell's article was linked, and thus gained much wider attention, on the popular Poynter media news roundup.

That drew the wrath of Newspaper Guild president Bernie Lunzer, who said he was "surprised" that this "anti-union screed" would be promoed, and wanted to know why it was.

To me, his clumsy attempt to suppress an article with a viewpoint he doesn't like only supports Bethell's contention that activities of union chieftains like Lunzer need much more exposure than they currently get.

P.S. I've personally seen all sides to this issue ... as a Guild member as a reporter at the Detroit News, and as a manager at the News dealing with the Guild; plus I was a feature writer at the News pre-union and at the nonunion Miami Herald, and an editor at the nonunion Gannett Co. headquarters. From my experience, journalists are better off without the Guild than with it.

On the Media Game blog is written by Gerry Storch.

Watch, hear the Bob Garfield Interview.

Even as decimated as they have become, I still can't imagine how we can remain well informed about local events without traditional newspapers.

The Project for Excellence in Journalism studied a week of news (last July 19-25) in Baltimore and found that the Sun and local TV reporters originated 76 percent of the material in six major stories that were tracked. New media outlets accounted for just four percent.

That means your typical sad-sack fulminating blogger sitting in his basement with a pile of brewskies by his computer contributed nothing except what the study called "essentially repetitive" content.

The biggest problem: the "original" reporting by the media heavily depended on official press releases. This is a casualty of the cutbacks.

As PEJ director Tom Rosenstiel, who's been on our site, told the Poynter Institute's Bill Mitchell, "There is very limited capacity to do original reporting, let alone enterprise reporting. The new outlets just don't have a lot of staffing, and the old media -- which had been set up with a lot of reporters -- are now much smaller."

On the Media Game blog is written by Gerry Storch.

One of the core themes from our founder Paul Mongerson when we launched our site a year and a half ago was the press' lack of attention to censorship of print and Internet reporting by the Chinese government. It certainly played an important role in the powerful economic competition and threat from China against the U.S.

That began to thaw during the Summer Olympics when the Chinese backed off from obvious censorship so the event would be a PR success with all the Western media in Beijing. But popular sites such as YouTube, Facebook and Twitter have remained blocked or impeded.

Now, of course, the issue has erupted into the open with Google defying the Chinese government and moving to stop the censorship of its search engine google.cn.

Best of all, the best-educated and most technologically savvy Chinese are learning how to circumvent the firewalls, and no doubt this impulse of freedom will spread.

On the Media Game blog is written by Gerry Storch.

Prof. Claudia Lingertat-Putnam, College of St. Rose, states that federal laws addressing cyberbullying may not be enough due to the anonymous nature of cyberharassment. She believes that proactive behavior such as parental involvement, open communication and awareness of online behavior may assist in managing this insidious online problem.

Read Claudia Lingertat-Putnam's Interview

The best lengthy media analysis piece I've seen in a long time is this one by Emily Miller in PoliticsDaily.com.

In it, she dares ask the heretofore unthinkable question: does the National Enquirer deserve a Pulitzer Prize for its investigative work in breaking the John Edwards scandal?

The Enquirer basically owned that story, telling of Edwards having a mistress who eventually bore his child while the candidate was trumpeting his cancer-stricken wife Elizabeth as a family asset.

Now, the story is back in the news as a new book, "Game Change," takes it a step further with revelations that three staffers quit because of the affair, and Edwards' wife angrily opened her shirt in front of staffers to show him and them her breast surgery scars.

Should the Enquirer win the Pulitzer, and can it? Yes, because with the rest of the press snoozing during the presidential campaign and aftermath, what other investigative work was there; and no, because the journalism establishment figures who control the prizes look down at the Enquirer as "tabloid trash" ... the same phrase Edwards used when he denied the story.

On the Media Game blog is written by Gerry Storch.

Bob Kessinger, VP of operations for CyberPatrol, states that federal laws will need to be written or amended to address cyberbullying. He admits, however, that there are tremendous difficulties in both composing and enforcing these laws. Kessinger explains the Technology Multiplier effect, which makes cyberbullying more complex than traditional bullying

Read Bob Kessinger's Interview

Fired Texas Tech football coach Mike Leach has filed court documents accusing his former university bosses of making "slanderous and libelous" statements against him.

The school ousted him after a player who had suffered a concussion claimed he was forced to stand for hours while confined in a dark place during practice.

Ordinarily, I'd say a libel suit from Leach would be a waste of time as he would no doubt be classified as an almost libelproof public figure, and even more so after the extensive public discussion of this incident.

But hold on. The coach disputes the player's allegation, and he states a cause of action: "The mere allegation that a head football coach would mistreat a student athlete threatens that coach's reputation and prospects for future employment and exposes him to ridicule and contempt."

What's more, not only does he have a cadre of lawyers to press his point, he also has a law degree himself from Pepperdine ... surely one of the few major college coaches in America to have a law degree.

Given his determination in bringing prominence to an obscure football program and his maverick personality ... he styles himself as a pirate ... don't count him out in getting somewhere with his libel case.

On the Media Game blog is written by Gerry Storch.