And in media news, the winners of the George Polk Awards have been announced. Winners included Chauncey Bailey, The Oakland Post editor who was murdered last year while investigating a local bakery with criminal ties. Bailey was the first journalist since 1993 to become a victim of a targeted killing in the United States. Blogger Joshua Marshall won a Polk Award for legal reporting for covering the U.S. attorneys scandal on his website Talking Points Memo. And Democracy Now! correspondent Jeremy Scahill won the George Polk Book Award for his best-seller, “Blackwater: The Rise of the World’s Most Powerful Mercenary Army.”