The BBC has a blog watch, composed by its Magazine department. Deep Throat and the EU Referendum were the two main topics

To the surprise of no sentient creature, the U.S. is far more religious than its closest allies and is much more tolerant of religious intrusions into public life, a poll has found.

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Tom Tomorrow has a wryly funny cartoon at Salon on how the Watergate scandal would have played out back then if today's attitudes applied (free with a day pass).   more »

Andrew Coyne posted a hilarious Michael Kinsley (L.A. Times editorial page editor) column:

In this great country, there are newspaper editorial pages of every political stripe, from nearly insane far-left rantings to the Wall Street Journal.

But when the United States faces a danger to its most important institutions and values, Americans can count on the newspaper industry to put aside petty differences and speak with one voice.

Now is such a moment. The enemy is invisible, indeed inexplicable, but could be fatal to all we hold dear. In short: Some evil force is causing people to stop reading newspapers!

The pissing and moaning amongst American newspaper types is ubiquitous. But in other parts of the world, newspaper circulation is actually up. Now why would that be?

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An interesting excerpt from an NYT piece about how the U.S. news media is still recovering from Watergate:

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India is developing quite the thirst for energy resources. But it's starting to run into China no matter where in the world it bellies up to the energy bar.

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JimBobby has "tagged (my) ass" and invited me to play in a little blogosphere game involving books. There's three questions:

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The Toronto Star looks at the whistleblowers of today in the United States and the different media and political climate that exists compared to the time of Watergate.

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