The Bush administration has picked Dorrance Smith, former media adviser to the Coalition Provisional Authority in Iraq, to be the Pentagon's chief spokesman. Smith, a media consultant, has long ties to the administration. He assisted in Florida recount efforts in 2000, and later took over as CPA chief L. Paul Bremer's senior media adviser. In Iraq, he helped steer a controversial government-funded television network designed to offer Iraqis an alternative to al Jazeera and other Middle East networks. Al Jazeera...