The Fascinating Blogosphere

Andrew Sullivan provides some interesting observations about the evolution of the blogosphere and the mainstream media during the Age of Terror.

It's fascinating, isn't it, how this war has so often come down to what we are and are not allowed to see. We were not allowed to see (for long) the video deaths of those who jumped out of the World Trade Center. We were not allowed to see the coffins of soldiers arriving back in the U.S. We are still not allowed to see the most revealing photographs of what really happened at Abu Ghraib (the case is still tied up in appeals). We were not allowed to see the beheading of Nick Berg. And now we are not allowed to see the cartoons that are being used by Islamists for another round of violent intimidation of free societies. And then, of course, there is what makes this war different. The web has made it possible to see almost all of this, if you look hard enough.