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LOS ANGELES -- The creators behind the Internet video mystery teen Lonelygirl15 have revealed themselves and want their fans to know they are not a front for a big Hollywood studio marketing some upcoming film. Instead, the three friends launched the adventures of the doe-eyed, 16-year-old homeschooled "Bree" as an experiment in storytelling that they intend to continue on their own Web site that was launched Tuesday.

Jayson Blair, the disgraced New York Times reporter caught plagiarizing and fabricating numerous stories and quotes for the famous paper, recently gave his first post-scandal interview. In a discussion with the New York Observer, Blair explained his bad behavior at the Times and gave some insight into his personal and professional motivations. He also managed, over the course of the interview, to display an amazing public relations acumen that lends itself, quite naturally, to a series of helpful public relations tips, which are sure to come in handy the next time you find yourself caught in a sticky situation or...

NEW YORK - A committee of 20 New York Times staffers and two outside news executives will review the newspaper's newsroom policies following a scandal the Times has called "a low point in the 152-year history of the newspaper." The Times on Wednesday named retiring Associated Press President and CEO Louis D. Boccardi and Joann Byrd, outgoing Seattle Post-Intelligencer editorial page editor, to the committee. The committee, headed by the Times' Assistant Managing Editor Allan M. Siegal, "will conduct a comprehensive review" of the Times' newsroom policies "in the aftermath of the Jayson Blair episode," according to a memo to...

LONDON - Cherie, Princess of Blair, sobbed her heart out on telly last night. (Where else should one sob one's heart out? What, after all, would be the point of doing so in private? That is what God gave us tears for: to shed in front of the cameras.) She confessed to the nation and the world -- truly, genuinely, sincerely -- that she was not perfect. Every sucker in the land was deeply moved. The problem is that Princess Cherie has been making a few rather foolish decisions lately. Like her late sister-in-suffering, Princess Diana, she has been consorting...