Weekend Wanderings

Here are a few things that caught our attention on a lazy, fall-like Saturday morning:

TVNewser has some interesting angles on the Bill Bennett controversy, including how Fox News is now labeling its "contributor" and an awkward moment between his brother, Bob Bennett, and CNN's Wolf Blitzer.

The flap over Bennett's comments on race, abortion and crime may remind some of an argument made in the best-selling book, "Freakonomics." The book's co-author, Steven Levitt takes to his blog to explain the differences.

In case you missed this yesterday, Nielsen Media Research reported that Americans are watching more television than ever before. For the 2004-2005 TV season, U.S. households watched an average of eight hours and 11 minutes a day. The average individual logged about four hours and 32 minutes each day. (Tip: Lost Remote).

And in case you wondered why the move by the New York Times to charge non-subscribers for online access to their opinion columnists was so roundly panned in the blogosphere, Technorati reveals one reason. It seems as though bloggers really, really like to talk about them. For a good part of the week, Times columnists Maureen Dowd, Paul Krugman, Thomas Friedman and David Brooks have held places in the top ten blog searches.