Said Before, Being Said Now, Will Be Said Again

Hyperlinks subvert hierarchy - David Weinberger

I’m just now watching Reliable Sources with Howard Kurtz on CNN - David Gergen, Bill Press and Jeff Jarvis are his panel today, and they are comparing and contrasting the work of mainstream journalism and bloggers in the rapid coming-to-rights of Eason Jordan of CNN and JD Guckert, aka Jeff Gannon.

“You don’t take money from the government and then purport to be delivering the news”, Gergen is saying right now.

Jeff Jarvis has noted that blogs give citizens, or anyone observing some activity, access to publish information easily and quickly. This information may become *news*. The links work to ensure that such *news* get spread around very quickly, and subject it to all sorts of analyses .. some spun through various point-of-view filters, and some analyses that deepen and uncover useful and sometimes embarassing facts.

Blogs are an important element of wirearchy in action, and help create a two-way flow of power and authority based on knowledge, credibiltiy, trust and a focus on results … the results being exposure of the issues in ways that mainstream, top-down media often has decided to *edit* or control according to an agenda.