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I'd like to you take a moment to track the progression of how journalists like to muck around with the political process without being accountable to anybody but their editorial boards.

Yesterday I was happy to go to bat for John McCain, thanks to the New York Times incredibly crass hit job. Well, today the Managing Editor of the Seattle Post Intelligencer has this to say about the NY Times' hatchet job:

Admitting that Keller was in a better position to vet the sourcing and facts than I am as, basically, a reader, let's assume that every source is solid and every fact attributed in the story to an anonymous source is true. You're still dealing with a possible appearance of impropriety, eight years ago, that is certainly unproven and probably unprovable.

Where is the solid evidence of this lobbyist improperly influencing (or bedding) McCain? I didn't see it in the half-dozen times I read the story. In paragraphs fifty-eight through sixty-one of the sixty-five-paragraph story, the Times points out two matters in which McCain took actions favorable to the lobbyist's clients -- that were also clearly consistent with his previously stated positions.

That's pretty thin beer.

And the "it must be so because it's in The New York Times" argument will never hold much water after Judith Miller and Ahmed Chalabi got done perforating it.

One of the reasons I've been so quiet of late is because I'm back teaching. I'm in the midst of compiling, updating, and writing up information for my students. This list, which some of you may find helpful, is a list of newspapers that publish English-language versions online.

This is an incomplete list of newspapers (some daily, some weekly) that appear in English. Some are official organs for their countries’ governments, although I have done my best to filter those out. Some are newspapers published by English-speaking (i.e. ex-pats) living in the these countries. Again, I’ve tried to filter those out. For the most part, these are English versions of papers that may appear in their native languages. Some are in English originally because English is one of the official languages spoken in that country.

I found most of these sites myself; some were taken from research conducted on World Newspapers, which is a good place to start.

British Broadcasting Company (Great Britain)

Guardian (Great Britain)

Independent (Great Britain)

The Times of London (Great Britain)

Telegraph (Great Britain).