This week's topic links

Covering the "Third War"

Howard Kurtz, The Daily Beast: "Libyan War and the Media's Reaction"

Ed Morrissey, Hot Air blog: "Video: Kurtz wonders where the media skepticism went"

Bill Carter, The New York Times: "CNN Leads in Cable News as MSNBC Loses Ground"

Anthony Shadid, Lynsey Addario, Stephen Farrell and Tyler Hicks, The New York Times: "4 Times Journalists Held Captive in Libya Faced Days of Brutality"

"Human Shields"

Jennifer Griffin & Justin Fishel, Fox News: "EXCLUSIVE: Libyans Use Journalists as Human Shields"

CNN Wire Staff, CNN: "CNN correspondent rejects Fox report on human shields"

David Folkenflik, NPR: "CNN and Fox Spar Over Choices in Covering Libya"

Jack Mirkinson, Huffington Post: "Fox News' Steve Harrigan Tears Into Nic Robertson: 'Dull,' 'Has a Screw Loose,' Does 'Bullsh-t' Reporting"

Latest Trends on Women in Journalism

Carolyn M. Byerly, Ph.D., International Women's Media Foundation: "Global Report on the Status of Women in the News Media"

Erik Sass, MediaDailyNews: "WSJ.com Winning Formula: Target Female Readers"

On the Media Takes Glass Challenge

Jeff Bercovici, Forbes: "Science Settles It: NPR's Liberal, But Not Very"

Tim Groseclose and Jeffrey Milyo, The Quarterly Journal of Economics: "A Measure of Media Bias"

Yue Tan and David H. Weaver, Mass Communication and Society: "Media Bias, Public Opinion, and Policy Liberalism from 1956 to 2004: A Second-Level, Agenda-Setting Study"