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BANNING BUNS (4#) -
and other pop torts -

# Prof Greenslade says that newspaper-generated myths are irking him and mentions one in particular: the hot cross bun ban.

# Whatta surprise then to see that particular "ban" over at the Daily Mail:

"Hospital staff claim they were banned from handing out hot cross buns this Easter in case they upset non-Christians."

# Timothy Noah has been "rubbernecking" the Phil Spector trial at Slate. I haven't noticed any good coverage of it lately; maybe I haven't been looking hard enough.

# Jack Shafer looks at the (pre-daddy announcement) media feeding frenzy for the Anna Nicole Smith Case. Now that the daddy thing has been resolved, there will probably be more coverage, but if it's not in SoFlo, I think I'll mostly pass it up from now on.

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