e-Literate

John Borland at ZDNews writes:

When history books are written, bloggers’ real contribution to the 2004 election may well turn out to be in providing leagues of amateur sleuths to fact-check political controversy.

In other words, the productive role of political blogging is to break the informational cascade in the mass media by adding both new data and new analysis. That sounds exactly right to me. The implication, though, is that we need to keep thinking of blogs and alternative perspectives rather than our main sources of news. I’m not sure that’s what’s happening.

Found via Roland’s Sunday Smart Trends on Smartmobs.com.