Marco,Thanks. The problem with the ntnoihg to the media except what is in a press release policy that the LHC collaborations are instituting is that, taken literally, it basically shuts down all blogging by LHC scientists. Blog postings are, unavoidably, communications to the media, since they can read them. If the only thing you can put in your blog are CERN press releases, why bother blogging about your work?Funny, but this policy either wasn't in place or wasn't enforced until there was some bad news. De facto, the policy seems to be that LHC bloggers can discuss good news as much as they want, but not bad news, Also, the collaborations are mixing one legitimate problem (their conventional concerns about discussion of preliminary data), with a very different one, that of the public perception of how well the LHC project is going.I think it would be appropriate for CERN to make sure that bloggers working there clearly distinguish between when they are speaking for themselves and when they are speaking officially for the lab, but beyond that I don't think it's a good idea to do anything other than encourage the dissemination of accurate information about how things are going.