QUICK HITS: Remember the "digital divide"? It was the idea that poorer Americans would become segregated from a technocratic elite. Well, that concept is getting debunked. Here's the report from "The Washington Post."

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That "Seattle Times" series on a cancer-research facility that an editor at the "Wall Street Journal" criticized yesterday is stirring up more controversy. Here's a story from the "New York Times."

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The media is still bitching about press access during the war on terrorism. Here's the story from the "Boston Globe."

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Want more information on the launch of the "New York Sun"? Go here and here.

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Harvard students are upset that law professor Alan Dershowitz wrote an incendiary editorial for an Israeli newspaper calling for the destruction of Palestinian villages in order to curtail terrorism. They're protesting. Hmm. I wonder how many of them protested today's suicide bombing that killed seven innocent Israeli bus passengers? Or protested the Sept. 11 attacks on America? Just wondering.

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Here's a bit of hopeful news: "A prominent Saudi Arabian editor Tuesday criticized and disavowed an article that appeared recently in his own newspaper, Al Riyadh, that repeated the century-old fiction that Jews use the blood of Christians and Muslims to make holiday foods." We need to applaud things like this. Loudly.

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The new Mugger column from the "New York Press" is up.