This week's topic links

Terrorist arrests

Dina Temple-Raston, NPR: "Officials: NYC Plot Operational, Not Just Aspirational"

Craig Alan Silverman, Huffington Post-Denver: "Obama Team Stops Another 9/11, Gets Help from Unlikely Source (Najibullah Zazi's Lawyer)"

Roman Polanski arrested

Howard Kurtz, Washington Post: "Roman History"

Robert Marquand, Christian Science Monitor: "Free Roman Polanski? Case shows US-France cultural divide"

CNN: "Filmmakers demand Polanski's release"

Dueling health care polls

NPR: "Senate Panel Rejects Divisive 'Public Option'"

Adam Nagourney and Dalia Sussman, New York Times: "Public Wary of Obama on War and Health"

Scott Rasmussen, Rasmussen Reports: "Health Care Reform: Support for Health Care Plan Hits New Low"

Julie Rovner, NPR: "Poll: Public Says Voice Not Heard in Health Debate"

NYT slow on ACORN story

Clark Hoyt (The Public Editor), New York Times: "Tuning In Too Late"

Lachlan Markay, NewsBusters/Media Research Center: "NYT Tries to Deflect Charges of Bias, Announces 'Opinion Media' Editor"

Which journalists deserve to be shielded?

Zachary Seward, Nieman Journalism Lab: "Shield law: Definition of 'journalist' gets professionalized"

Other items of interest

Robert McFadden, New York Times: "William Safire, Political Columnist and Oracle of Language, Dies at 79"

Edith Honan, Reuters: "Dan Rather loses $70 million lawsuit against CBS"