Sarah Jane… Coleman? A reader tips MinnPost’s David Brauer off to a big-time goof at KSTP in March. In its coverage of the premature release of jailed Symbionese Liberation Army member Sarah Jane Olson, the station showed an image of another ’60s-era radical — Norm Coleman, then an anti-war protester. Watch the video.

On the objectivity paradigm: The Star Tribune’s Bill Ward asks Arianna Huffington if “solid, impartial coverage” is a “thing of the past.” Her reply: “I think impartial coverage is coverage that is accurate, fact-based and fair. It does not mean you give equal weight to both sides of each story or issues when one of the two sides is wrong: the idea that you talk about the war and have full coverage include Richard Perle or Bill Kristol or other people who basically lied to us to get us into this war and continue lying to us to keep us from getting out, and yet these are the people that the mainstream media are looking to.” [via]

The pervasive Obama-Muslim meme: It’s not exactly a news flash, but as Wired writes, hoax emails about Barack Obama being a clandestine Muslim “still fool dumb white guys, a point made by the New York Daily News. As Cursor notes, four major papers — The Washington Times, The Los Angeles Times, Washington Post and Baltimore Sun — have recently mentioned the false Obama/Muslim link without correction.