Julian Sanchez has a nice piece in Reason on the John Lott affair as an illustration of the strengths of bloggers compared to traditional media. You can read my thoughts on the same issue here.
BTW, I’ve finally got around to adding Julian’s blog to my blogroll.
John Quiggin 
John, it appears you forgot to close an italic tag following “Reason”.
It’s a chronic problem with me. I tried to close with which of course did nothing. Thanks for alerting me.