NOTABLES: Persons of interest

I am glad someone influential in the Catholic blogsphere, Carl Olson, who edits Ignatius Insight, has done an extensive fisk of John Allen's latest NCR column
insightscoop.typepad.com/2004/2009/09/now-i-understand-only-prolifers-are-uncivil.h...
in order to point out all the journalistic offenses, at the very least, that he commits.

Having the stature in the Catholic media world that Allen has does not excuse him from trying his best to be right and fair - in fact, it puts him at a greater obligation to be right and fair. But he has increasingly been advocating the ultra-liberal line that his magazine espouses, and it's very infuriating.