What goes around

Pundits in the traditional media might find cause for celebration in the findings of political scientists John Sides and Eric Lawrence, reported on today's L.A. Times op-ed page, that of 16,000 Americans surveyed, only 34 percent said they read blogs, and only 14 percent named a blog that focused on politics. But they shouldn't make too much vindication out of that. It made me think of a 1969 Time magazine poll that found only 16 percent cited a familiarity with any nationally syndicated columnist, and the plurality of these were advice and humor columnists.

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