Need To Read: October 1, 2009

Today's must-reads are thinking about the costs of becoming a journalist:

• EPA moving forward on regulating greenhouse gases (MoJo)
• White House wants to weaken reporter shield law (NYT)
• The Democrats' health care reform proposals are built around ideas Republicans used to favor (The American Prospect)
• Michael Moore's new movie: If there's no revolution, I quit (MoJo/David Corn)
• Comcast buying NBC from Sheinhardt Wig Company? (WaPo)
• Journalism no longer offers socioeconomic mobility (Working Class Studies)
• Annals of great punditry (MoJo/Kevin Drum)
• AThe Real Public Option: Congress' Private Medical Clinic (MoJo)
• More promotional ideas for the Washington Post (Columbia Journalism Review)
• National Review's John Derbyshire argues women shouldn't have the right to vote. Seriously. (ThinkProgress)

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