direction of the news is all blogosphere, all opinions, with no serious fact-checking, no serious attempts to put stories in context ... I think what President Obama said was an incredibly naïve statement. It is not born out of the facts. Today's media includes an online component. Is that what he means by the blogosphere? I mean, The Jerusalem Post has a vibrant online component and so does The New York Times and The Washington Post. It would be impossible to have a major newspaper without a vibrant blogospheric element to it.