The News Sieve

- A profile in government incompetence and corruption: the Pentagon’s neverending development of the F-22A Raptor. (POGO Blog)

- How useless are those UN troops in South Lebanon? They haven’t been able to stop or discourage Hezbollah from amassing a huge arsenal of weapons since 1978. (LA Times)

- The best example of multimedia investigative reporting I’ve seen in months. The Miami Herald’s examination of corruption in the Miami-Dade Housing Agency should be required reading in J-school.

- Will our favorite Congressional curmudgeon Senator Ted Stevens (R-Alaska) go on “The Daily Show” to debate Jon Stewart about tubes, trucks, etc? Comedy Central’s reps haven’t called us back yet.

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