Rather Newsworthy

Jamie Dettmer has a good piece in today's New York Sun that highlights the work of bloggers in brining about Dan Rather's resignation. He singles out the work of blogger William Ardolino of INDC Journal.

Meanwhile, there's speculation about his successor (and a thoughtful overview of the whole mess) here. That said, such speculation is unlikely to draw the attention one could have expected during big media's heyday. Michael Goodwin says Rather's fall is Nixonian:

It was all so, well, Nixonian: Accuse your critics of partisanship and wrap yourself in the flag. A younger Rather had a famous run-in with Nixon, but apparently he learned something from the disgraced President. Tricky Dick became Tricky Dan.

Jeff Jarvis has two of the best posts (in one easy link) I've read on the implosion of big media, or what he calls the "end of one-way news." It all boils down to trust:

Oh, trust is still important. In fact, in this new, distributed world of ours, it is even more important. Trust is our organizing principle. Trust is what makes weblogs, Technorati, eBay, Craigs List, RSS, chat, and email work: We pay attention to those we trust; we filter out the rest. We each decide whom to trust; it's no longer decided for all of us.

That's something else to be thankful for this Thanksgiving.