I'm a student at Penn, and I'm creating a documentary film on former Senator Wofford. The non-profit organization that's producing the film just released a teaser trailer. It has interviews with Senator Kennedy, former Senator Santorum, and General Colin Powell, in addition to Sen. Wofford himself. The full documentary also has interviews with Governor Rendell, Sen. Casey, Paul Begala, Ted Sorensen, and many others.

Check it out at: http://www.civicdocumentaries.org/Portrait_of_a_Citizen.html

Oh jeez. Philadelphians Against the Inquirer anyone? --Ray

It's the truth, Ruth. I haven't seen any reports yet covering the press conference, but Editor and Publisher has the skinny.

NEW YORK A press conference will be held at 1:30 this afternoon at the Philadelphia Inquirer to announce that it has added former Sen. Rick Santorum to its stable of columnists...

The story in the paper today includes: "Talking about the threat of Islamic terrorism is now Santorum's main occupation, though the Republican sounds laid-back these days. He is pitching a movie idea to Hollywood and laughed off speculation about a political comeback in Pennsylvania."

That's terrific. I have a pitch for Santorum's movie. It's about an Islamic detainee in Guantanamo who falls in love with one of his interrogators. The title: Man On Dog.

What might be even worse is that the Inquirer is already advertising the hire with a non-news story ("Santorum presses his case against Islamic extremism"). The parenthetical note that Santorum's about to start writing for Tierney is buried halfway down.

Inga Saffron and a few still-talented reporters aside, is there any reason to read, let alone buy, the Inquirer at all?