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Democracy and Blogs

Doc Searls has a fascinating post about how individuals are using non-mainstream media like blogs and independent films to recall Bush due to the decidedly undemocratic way he became president. He goes so far as to call it a constitutional crisis:

Rationalize the election of George W. Bush any way you want, it was still a huge train wreck with a highly compromised outcome that carried no popular mandate and should have prompted a constitutional crisis. Now we're having that crisis, only it's not playing out in the papers or on television. It's happening in Do-It-Yourself-ville.

While I think that may be an exaggeration, this will still be the first election in a long time where ordinary individuals have a substantial hand in shaping stories and opinions, traditionally a monopoly of journalists and campaign operatives. All hail the mighty blog!