Provocateur

Blogger Ed Morrissey is becoming a bit of a celebrity (well, a Canadian celebrity) for having published content from open government hearings on its "adscam" scandal. Canadian judges can ban media vehicles from reporting or commenting on some ongoing proceedings, something U.S. bloggers can gleefully ignore. The New York Times's stringer found Morrissey to be hoarse from having spent endless hours interviewed by Canadian journalists and radio shows.

Morrissey said the interviews are strange, as "they can't ask me about the case itself because they can't reproduce anything that has to do with the testimony." Those Canadian publications can't even reveal which blog covered the uncoverable scandal.

Bloggers in Canada have proven largely nonconfrontational, avoiding the scandal and, in at least one case, deleting comments posted regarding the topic.

Morrissey said his planned family vacation to Canada might be put off for sometime - about the same amount of time a contempt ruling would remain active in fact.