Two years after it began, the website Homicide Watch DC is on hiatus and its founders, Laura and Chris Amico, find themselves with the tin cup out on Kickstarter looking for money to sustain the site.

Are you kidding us? The San Diego Union-Tribune is hosting a media-training event for state Republican candidates, including lessons in “how to get noticed by the press, how to craft a press release” and -- wait for it -- how to get the endorsement of the largest paper in the city, the San Diego Union-Tribune. In June, U-T's chief executive John Lynch told the New York Times the paper made "no apologies" for its partisanship. “We are doing what a newspaper ought to do, which is to take positions," he said. But, he added, "We totally respect the journalistic integrity of our paper and there is a clear line of demarcation between our editorials and our news." Byers adds, "Indeed, the line appears to be so clear as to be transparent."

Rachel Jackson, a former Journal Register Company employee writes a letter to Romenesko saying the bankruptcy is no surprise and that CEO "John Paton and his cronies ran the papers into the ground in their effort to 'modernize' the company. They were killing off print and and they openly admitted it. They cut jobs with abandon, set unrealistic individual production goals and local benchmarks, attempted to clone community engagement efforts everywhere without regard to local demographics or values, and – as the other employee stated – constantly spewed the company line about how great Digital First is and how we all need to get on board."

The Associated Press "fact check" of Bill Clinton's speech Wednesday night "has attracted a fair amount of Internet abuse, but not nearly enough," Jonathan Chait writes, ripping AP for attempting to use Clinton's lie about Monica Lewinsky to discredit him on issues of Republican economic policy.