"For as long as there's been national news, it's been dominated by a few headline sources. ... I don't know what the difference is today." The difference is t

"For as long as there's been national news, it's been dominated by a few headline sources. ... I don't know what the difference is today." The difference is that a diverse, global set of individuals are becoming content creators, and a potentially global megaphone is being passed on to them. Early on in the Internet's history it seemed that this emancipation of the individual voice from corporate and government control was going to be permanent, but governments and corporations have proven to be very adept at adapting and clawing their way back to positions of control. And, in a twist that few expected, most individuals were happy to cede control back to governments and corporations for the sake of convenience and because they wanted to be protected from the speech of other individuals.