Agreement at the highest levels

Karl Rove agrees with me. He just doesn't know it. In an echo of my opening statement here, Karl Rove--in what was one of today's biggest under-the-Big-Media-radar stories--agrees with my assessment of the blogosphere:


Rove considers Memogate a watershed in the rise of the alternative media.

“The whole incident in the fall of 2004 showed really the power of the 'blogosphere',” he said in his West Wing office.

“Because in essence you had now, an army of self-appointed experts looking over the shoulder of the mainstream media and bringing to bear enormously sophisticated skills,” he added.

Still, Rove cautioned that the Internet’s political potential has a darker side.

As I said, the blogosphere has put a powerful tool of communication into the hands of experts. A dangerous combination and one that will only continue to trouble organizations and individuals who don't do the work to get it right in their reporting.