“The New York Times is really, really dumb with religion. Everybody knows this, it’s astonishing, and the editors must be even more stupid than the reporters.”--Jeff Sharlet

“Opinion [journalism] is inherently unfair,” declares Daniel Okrent of The New York Times. Josh Marshall, a respected liberal blogger, couldn’t disagree more. "Opinion journalism can be fair,” argues Marshall, as long as the writer maintains “a fundamental honesty with the reader.” Is there such a thing as honest bias in the age of Fox ("We Report, You Decide") News?

George Curry on why the Net is as much a force for division as a social network, connecting us.

Historically, African-Americans have been in the frontlines when the nation goes to war. So why are there so few black warbloggers, now that the bullets are flying in Iraq?

Omar Wasow, the man who created the Afrocentric portal BlackPlanet.com, hoped he'd create the leading online destination for African-Americans. He never dreamed his site would be “getting half a billion page views every month.’

The second Persian Gulf war was a media war as well as a shooting war, and the Internet has been one of its most hotly contested battlegrounds.

Independent journalist Chris Allbritton becomes the first weblogger to report the war live, on the ground, from Iraq.

Salon killed its pathbreaking travel section, and the few webzines that feature smart, literary travel writing may soon be history—victims of the dotcom wipeout. Such sites and sections are more than just glorified airfare listings, their editors say; they link the world.

For a brief moment, Sportsjones.com, the only original-content, non-affiliated sports site on the Web, offered fans a smarter, funnier, less jock-centric take on sports. Then ESPN.com gobbled it up.