Paper Says Gatekeeper Has Met the Reaper

The Age, an Australian newspaper, writes that the days of traditional media as privileged gatekeepers of information are gone forever.

Thanks to technology, we have entered an era where no news story passes without an army of "citizen journalists" pitching in to report and comment on thousands of weblogs (a weblog, or "blog", is a personal website constructed using one of the many free, easy-to-use tools such as blogger.com available on the web).