Recent Survey: 64 percent believe that Saddam Hussein had strong links to Al Qaeda: the number has actually gone up!

CSMonitor: Tom Regan: My American Experience Archive March, 2005. People in the media, and especially the pundit bloggers out there, should read this.

There is a common misperception that this Metafilter thread kinda exposes: That blogs lean liberal. It’s just not true. By my estimation (not scientific in the least), there appears to be a near 50/50 split among partisan political blogs.

Related: Clay Shirky: The FCC. Weblogs, and Inequality: “Diverse. Free. Equal. Pick two.”

Tom Regan decries the lack of objectivity in the media these days. I don’t. That’s the wrong thing to mourn for.

If you want to worry about something it’s that the line between opinion and fact has not only become blurry – it has been obliterated.