Digg: Placing media in the hands of the people November 24, 2006
Digg.com is a glimpse of the future. It is what news should be: submitted by and for the people. It cuts out the main media sources, which is brilliant, and has been a very long time coming. Kevin Rose seriously deserves a medal for getting a team together to make Digg what it is today.
In all honesty, Digg was the answer to what I had been in search of for a long time. After living here in the USA for a few years I was sick and tired of the slanted nature of television media. It was selected news provided by rich people with invested interests in politics and power. It wasn't the truth.
This is the reason why Jon Stewart and Stephen Colbert are so popular now. While everything they do is soaked in hilarity and gold comedy, it was about time someone stood up and showed everyone exactly how full of shit the media really is.
Let's take a cultural comparison for a moment. Imagine the concept of a television journalist interviewing the leader of a nation. Back home in Australia, if an interviewer took on Prime Minister John Howard, you would witness something that is almost unthinkable over here in the US: someone in the media keeping the political leader accountable. On current affairs programming, such as the Australian ABC's 7:30 Report, someone like Kerry O'Brien makes the effort when interviewing politicians to keep the bastards honest. He asks the tough questions.
Over here, press conferences with President Bush are littered with pre-approved questions. That is contradictory to the role of the media. The media's job is to keep you, the people, informed. & that just isn't happening over here. Don't get me wrong. There were some things I didn't like about Australian media when I lived over there - but after viewing the trends from two different cultures, I can't help but think that the US media is doing a great injustice to the American people.
So, if you want to get to the bottom of what information is out there, get it online. Go to Digg.com and discover why it dominates over modern television media: it is news provided by YOU... and in this day and age, THAT is what matters. But where do we go from here? That answer, is up to you.
Let's take a cultural comparison for a moment. Imagine the concept of a television journalist interviewing the leader of a nation. Back home in 
