It seems that the national conversation about current events is getting increasingly fragmented. This is likely due to a combination of the enormous impact the Iraq conflict is having, combined with the dwindling audience for big tent news media programing. As a consequence, the blogs or websites I read you may have never heard of and the same can be said for the ones you read.
Meanwhile the mainstream press seems only able to keep about 2 or 3 major stories going at a time and other important things are only addressed by the niche media. When the less well followed stories are occasionally covered by the mainstream press, it is usually in a breathless tone with minimal context upon which to evaluate the issue.
Here are a couple of topics that I follow via blogs that seem inadequately covered by the broadcast or cable news networks.
Avian Flu
Net Neutrality
Singularity
