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				Readers: Why We Don't Alert Media To Mistakes Poynteronline Associated Press Managing Editors, working with 16 newspapers across the country, last week asked about 3,000 others to comment on a disturbing question raised by The New York Times Jayson Blair case: "Why would readers and sources fail to alert a newspaper to reporting they recognize as clearly inaccurate?" Here are their answers, reported by Carol Nunnelley and Phil Shook. Survey: Readers Have Lots On Mind To Ask Candidates Arizona Daily Star Presidential candidates on a living-room tour of the country would find plenty of hosts with questions, many of them about the war in Iraq and other foreign-policy challenges, many about health care and the economy. World News: TV Has The Edge; Newspapers Have Challenges And Opportunities APME News An increasingly diverse American public, with jobs and other interests tied to the world outside the United States, is likely to show a growing appetite for international news. But newspapers now lag a distant second behind television for the international news audience and must depart from traditional ways of presenting world news to engage a growing audience. Readers Respond To Fallujah Photos Poynteronline America's editors say they faced tough calls on how to handle photographs of gruesome killings in Fallujah, Iraq. Thousands of American readers, asked for their views by Hometown news organizations, helped illustrate that difficulty. Many readers supported displaying the photographs prominently; some said the images brought home the true nature of war and others said they showed the savagery of America's adversaries.