Cursor's Media Patrol - 10/04/05

Slate's Bruce Reed argues that "the fair question to ask ... is not how good a lawyer she is, but how good a hack?", and an American Prospect article wonders about 'The Things She Couriered.' Plus: 'The Ponzi Victims Catch On.'

As five more Americans are killed in a new Iraq offensive, a Newsweek poll suggests that President Bush has "found his floor" -- with support for his Iraq policy at 33 percent.

effrey St. Clair investigates 'The Great Green Scare,' wherein "the FBI is acting as a federally-funded paramilitary force for the cancer industry and Extinction, Incorporated," while "on Fox News, blinking eco-terrorist alerts have replaced Tom Ridge's color-coded threat level."

Although authorities "have yet to confirm a single incident of gunfire at helicopters" in New Orleans after Katrina, Knight Ridder reports that "the mere rumor that they had was enough."

The News-Press reports that it and two other Florida papers are suing "to make FEMA open its books to show who got money -- and how much -- after four hurricanes raked Florida in 2004."