Two separate issues… On Saddam’s execution, YouTube, and the old media acting as the arbiter, Roy
Greenslade asks…

Should people be restricted from
seeing anything they want? If so, who should act as the arbiter? Do we have a
democratic right to decide these matters as individuals? Does the apparent
hunger in the West to view the images of Saddam indicate that
taste has been incorrectly imposed in the past by mainstream media?”   .

Meanwhile, Los Angeles Times columnist, Joel Stein, explains why not to email him… (no sub or reg req; found vie here)

Here’s what my Internet-fearing editors have failed to understand: I
don’t want to talk to you; I want to talk at you. A column is not my
attempt to engage in a conversation with you. I have more than enough
people to converse with. And I don’t listen to them either. That sound
on the phone, Mom, is me typing.

Some newspapers even list the
phone numbers of their reporters at the end of their articles. That’s a
smart use of their employees’ time. Why not just save a step and have
them set up a folding table at a senior citizen center with a sign
asking for complaints?