And when Downie said, “… instead of weakening the paper’s brand, as … it was feared, it has strengthened it and made the Washington Post well known around the world.“, he forgot to add, “ as the place to watch Liberalist dung petrify.”

Ironically, their metrics would probably fall to average ‘hometown’ status if they actually became neutral in bias, since there wouldn’t be as much cause to link to them.

On the other hand, the blog world is still nascent. I recall the early days of usenet, the flame wars, then along came Slashdot and with it, I saw that anyone (grassroots) could become the ‘go-to’ for whatever the pet topic.

The only barrier back then, was money, lots of it, to host and operate a site. Since then, the cost of entry has fallen to just pennies/day, depending only on the amount of personal effort readily available to add content.

If only Ben Franklin, Martin Luther and other ye olde pamphleteers had such ease of access to content & distribution.

Of course, there will be atempts to control and regulate information to/from the masses. But I think the genie is out, never to be stuffed back into BigMedia/Communications’ back pocket. There will always be a way for anyone to speak their mind and if necessary call the powers that be to account.

For that, just look at China. In spite of Google and other search engines’ assistance in blocking critical voices, the netroots still get the word out. If blocking text based communications is difficult for Google-China, think how much more difficult it will be to block video from their own YouTube. Hehehe.

BTW, La Shawn, I’m doing just fine and rather busy, but hey, it’s breaktime.

…then I was the only one I knew with a blog … now everyone is talking about blogs. I am about to post another post that is a correction to Schlussels arguments about Clinton. A reader of mine did the cyber sleuthing and proved Schlussel was wrong. That’s another thing about blogs, the readers are empowered to contribute as well.

Oh! WOW !!!! The WoPo has been made honest? Did I sleep through something?

Downie has the spine of a snail. He can not get the concept of balanced reporting to make sense in his view from the tower. He even claims not to vote so that he can make himself free of political bias. What a clown! If he had the least interest in editing an honest paper, he would not keep a court of liberal jesters as his editorial board.

Then, assuming Big Brother doesn’t shut it down (or if it does), another form of public address system will be born!

Guest Editorial- by Kim Jong Il I have been catching quite a bit of flak over the past few years, and in particular since yesterday, over our nuclear ambitions here in the Democratic Republic of North Korea. Apparently the nuclear