I keep thinking about the invention of the printing press -- remember how in school we all learned what an important event that was? One of the changes it created in the society of the time was to make the Bible accessible to everyone so they could read it for themselves. And THAT led to the rise of the reformists and Protestant denominations.
In several hundred years, will history point to the rise of weblogs as the same kind of turning point because the MSM is no longer the only conduit between the people and interpreter of events?