Open source reporting gets tested.

Experimental coverage of the 2008 presidential election, engaging 12,000 ordinary citizens who wanted to be involved.

Today we say media instead of "the press." But it's a mistake. The press has become the ghost of democracy in the media machine, and we need to keep it alive.

"The newspaper must see that its own health is dependent on the health of dozens of other agencies which pull people out of their private worlds."