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(The Times gives front-page play to the former top U.S. military commander in Iraq criticizing the Bush administration's "incompetent" management of the war. But the paper fails to mention his equally blistering assessment of the news media's coverage of the war. The paper should have covered those comments, fact-checked them and put them in context)

(Readers take exception to calling Sarah Palin Ms. instead of Mrs. Palin and to using Barack Obama's middle name, Hussein. The first one follows long precedent and policy: Ms. was what she wanted to be called. The second follows another precedent that is inconsistently applied)

(A Times copy editor writes about his beef with an airline, and a freelancer recommends a restaurant co-owned by her long-term boyfriend. It's wrong to use the newspaper for what can be construed as personal ends)

(The government whispers its exoneration of Steven J. Hatfill, six years after naming him as a "person of interest" in anthrax attacks on Congress and news organizations that killed five people. Times columnist Nick Kristof, who wrote columns about the case, intends to be more stand-up and to apologize in the paper for pain he might have caused Hatfill — and to wrestle with the journalistic issues)

(There is reader outrage over the decision by The Times to hire William Kristol as a second conservative voice in a lineup of Op-Ed columnists that leans decidedly liberal. The Public Editor wouldn't have hired Kristol, but it isn't the end of the world, and everyone should take a deep breath and calm down)

(David Pogue, a popular technology columnist, is an example of a growing trend — and ethics challenge: journalists who become their own brands)

(The Times publishes an appreciation of the late Walter Cronkite containing seven errors, even after his son had notified the paper that Cronkite was near death and that earlier articles in other publications had contained factual mistakes)

(A tantalizing excerpt from a book by President George W. Bush's former press secretary, suggesting the President may have knowingly provided him with false information about Iraq's non-existent weapons of mass destruction, sparks an online firestorm. The Lede, a news blog at nytimes.com, covers it. The printed paper ignores the brief controversy)

(The Times uses the Freedom of Information Act aggressively to try to get important news content from federal agencies, and the agencies are unfortunately creative at finding ways to delay or withhold information they don't want to release)