This just in! Caveat emptor suspended: be your own news editor
A few years back camera phones showed us the London Tube bombings on sites like Flickr, later to be used by more traditional media outlets.  Later, bloggers covered the Myanmar martial law outbreak, when foreign reporters weren't permitted access.  Days ago, the Mumbai, India terrorist attacks - on anyone with a brit or american passport- were livetweeted via twitter.org and on photoblogging sites.

I'm excited by this.  This is how I want to get my news.  Unless my little ones are around and then I'll look for those hallowed traditional-media information sources: Stewart and Colbert.  But for up-to-the-minute, what-matters-now coverage?  If you're reading this blog, you've already got at least one source for unfiltered, unverified information - which news always is, even the stuff you read later in history books.   And that puts us in the best, most informed position thus far in history to decide truth for ourselves

This was meant to be a rant about the amazement I feel at having recently plugged myself into an iPhone.  About how content is personal again, now tech has made the world smaller after years of requiring intermediaries.  I'll write that post, here or elsewhere, but watching the Mumbai events unfold on Twitter made one fact more real for me than ever: 

We don't need people deciding what to fit into our news cycles ever again.  We have the power to choose what knowledge is critical to absorb FOR OURSELVES.  That's a freedom and a power I still don't think I -nor the folks crafting messages or hiding facts from us- have fully adapted to yet.  

Now go out and experience the world, with nobody's x-colored glasses on but your own.