i disagree with that conclusion. While the voices of the people are multitidinous, in blogs, they are a jumble, of conflicting voices, with no discernible distinction between the wild-eyed and the trustworthy, news and fanciful opinions,.
Then, too, they depend on the old media for source material.

McClellan's indictment of the press was only skin deep. What is emerging is that not only govrnmental pressure played a role (that should have been expected), but that it was a collusion between the government and the corporate owners of the media that helped stifle appropriate questions.

It is quite true that he people don't often wear their thinking caps. It should be the role of the media to help put those caps back on, but it didn't, and it isn't.