Deep Throat, Gillmor, and the "new" media

The identity of deep throat was revealed yesterday. Since my car has no FM radio, I learned this first from the rightwing bat-shit-crazy-libertarians on the AM band. Luckily, when I got home, I had Dan Gillmor to give me reflection, honesty, and insight on an event that happened long before I was born.

This makes me wonder: have we been unnecessarily limiting the mediums in which non-media-conglomerate owned publications (I almost said "citizen journalism") could flurish? My 3AM mind is telling me that perhaps we should look to open-source software, and online games for inspiration on how this might work.