Hey there, Washington. How was your weekend? Ours was OK. Yeah, just OK. Oh sure, we’re fine. We guess we’re just a little troubled by some of today’s headlines. As if the looming Heat Emergency, which has given us a Code Orange Air Quality day today and will place the heat index close to 110 through much of the week, wasn’t disturbing enough, we alse read in the Examiner that the growth of online news…

The Post and the White House are embroiled in a conflict about the freedom of the press … this time at issue is the White House’s annual holiday video featuring President Bush’s dog, Barney. This year the White House had decided to distribute the popular holiday “Barneycam” video to television stations for free, but not news websites, insisting instead they link to the White House site. Last year’s video drew 24 million viewers to the…