From Poynter.org, ‘I see dead people’: a compilation of resources for journalists, useful for the rest of us too, to help figure out whether a given celebrity is already dead or still alive . Avoid making the ‘Abe Vigoda gaffe’. And also from Poynter, I was entertained by these tips for ‘fair and accurate’ reporting on the clergy abuse scandal. Pointers include: avoiding blaming sexual abuse on clerical celibacy; not forgetting the poor wrongly acused priests when tallying the victims of the scandal; keeping in mind that some sexual sins are worse than others; recognizing that the Catholic Church is vulnerable to scapegoating; trying to broaden coverage of Church affairs to get beyond the abuse issue to some of its other involvements; and understanding that the Church is not monolithic and contains a spectrum of opinion and behavior. Pardon my heresy, the (self-professed) Catholic reporter who wrote this article is not exactly a poster child for impartiality; he sounds more like he works for the Vatican’s public relations office…