Dismantling big publishing conglomerates and urban newspaper rackets would be a good thing, presumably. Not sure individual blogs can do that much, tho’ the Indy Media people believe in their cause. Indy Media is a bit too “fringe” and leftist for many (in urban areas, LA, SF, gays seem to be directing most of the Indy Media programming), but in spirit not completely mistaken.

Wealthy and/or corporate persons probably ignore public journalism, Indy Medias, fringe blogs. Those who are not so wealthy might not ignore ‘em–yet most techies, IT people, or academics don’t care to align themselves with unionists, strikes, migrant workers, anarchists, etc. Some of the Indy Media people in CA however do provide an interesting and rather alarming picture of the underbellies of LA or SF or the central Valley: I respect the journalists or documentarians who would put cameras in cops’ faces as they shake people down in poor areas.