new AIM contract takes your privacy.

Many readers have written to point out that AOL's new Terms of Service for AIM "include the right for AOL to use anything and everything you send through AIM in any way they see fit, without informing you. A sample passage: '...by posting Content on an AIM Product, you grant AOL, its parent, affiliates, subsidiaries, assigns, agents and licensees the irrevocable, perpetual, worldwide right to reproduce, display, perform, distribute, adapt and promote this Content in any medium. You waive any right to privacy.'"

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At Fox News, Journalism is Number Two

A new study from The Project for Excellence says that Fox News anchors voice their opinions more often than their competitors. According to Fox News producerJerry Burke, that's one of the reasons the channel is so popular: "You don't want to look at a cookie-cutter, force-feeding of the same items hour after hour. I think that's part of the success of the channel, not treating our anchors like drones. They're, number one, Americans, and number two, human beings, as well as journalists." At right, popular Fox News human being Martha MacCallum breaks an opinion. — GREG BEATO

-Wonkette