It is real

I found it interesting to find out the other day that the "comments" section of The Miami Herald website is the second most visited part of the site.  This proposes an excellent and progressive concept that moves one more step closer to citizen journalism.  I believe that more and more the voice of the common man will want to be heard, and eventually, need to be heard.  It will be the watchdog of this country.  

For some reason I have this strange belief that although the media is supposed to be the fourth estate, the government has some hand in what they say.  It goes completely against the the idea of the first amendment and negates the watchdog concept, but  if this is true, which I am not saying it is, then the public will search long and hard for an outlet; that outlet being blogs (possibly).