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Writing about the New York Times is a lot like it used to be writing about Mike Royko during his last few years at the Tribune. Much as I admired him, I never seemed to find an opportunity to say so; instead, he had me picking one nit after another.

Watching Fox News actually increased its audience’s ignorance!

Which means Blow said one thing about MSNBC in his article and the illustration to his article said another that contradicted it.

But square that with this—a line I had to read three times before I was sure what it said: “On average, people were able to answer correctly 1.8 of 4 questions about international news, and 1.6 of 5 questions about domestic affairs.”