While it always irks me when non-Catholics take a jab at the church, I’m always pleased when Catholics rage about bad policies and practices. Andrew Sullivan has been all over this new pope and his gay priest witch hunts. Here’s a post about how Brokeback Mountain is going to pose a threat to Benedict.
Are the collective efforts of the Internet readers a superior form of fact checking? Judge Posner had made that claim in the Times a few months ago. But the latest debacle in Wikipedia had lead to many questions about accuracy in the blogosphere. Interestingly, most bloggers have passed on this issue even though almost every paper has had at least one article on the topic.
Apt. 11d 
There has been discussion at Cliopatria and, IIRC, Crooked Timber …
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Or perhaps it’s because bloggers have a sense of what value to place on information on the internet and don’t assume that anything that rhymes with encyclopedia automatically is a reliable (or unreliable) source? Perhaps they are information saavy and know to use internet info as a starting point and not an ending point.
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ADM — Really? It was on Crooked timber? Don’t know how I missed that.
Hypatia — absolutely. Bloggers know they share space with major league wingnuts. One glance at Little Green Footballs and I need a hot shower. I think that bloggers are probably the most skeptical of information on the Internet.
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