Armchair media critics might appreciate this short Reason article ostensibly about Connie Chung getting fired from CNN, although it's really about the "age of radical decentralization of news sources and feeds." I find it interesting that CNN's market share is being eaten away at both ends, so to speak -- by Al Jazeera and Fox News. Some of the left like might tag Reason as "crypto-conservative," but whatever you call it, they write some pretty good stuff. Via Matt Welch.

Like the article called "Pax Man Fever" on why we need to believe in Salam Pax. In the end, author Sara Rimensnyder strikes a somewhat fatalistic note: "If our bullshit detectors can't help us judge the truth of one voice, how can we hope to get an accurate reading about the state of an entire nation, or indeed a region, forecasted twenty years into the future?"