This will likely come as no sur­prise to my Iraqi read­ers, but I came across this tid­bit in a Guardian arti­cle about the ves­tiges of Saddam’s grip on Iraq:

Almost all of the bureau­crats at [Saddam’s] infor­ma­tion min­istry have done very nicely for them­selves since the war. The gov­ern­ment min­ders who spent their days report­ing to the intel­li­gence ser­vices on for­eign reporters or doing their best to obstruct their work have gone on to well-paid jobs — for the same for­eign news organ­i­sa­tions they once hounded.
The second-in-command at the infor­ma­tion min­istry, who spent his days read­ing the reports the min­ders wrote about vis­it­ing for­eign jour­nal­ists, has been employed by Fox News.

I just shake my head at this one… As Josh over at Talk­ing­PointsMemo notes, if CNN had done this, this might raise more than a few eye­brows.
The rest of the arti­cle is an inter­est­ing read, too.