This was my personal favorite, and hit right on the money:
"Well I think the foundation of a free society is a free press. And we've seen what's happening to papers in the US right now. I think they're really important. I don't want to see us descend into a nation of bloggers."
Note: Cheers from the audience for that.
The statement is so true. As evident on many ZDNet "stories" most of which usually contain more opinion then fact. It's worth noting that even here, the link is entitled "News & Blogs" with the link simply going to /news.
The problem is that these "Blogs" appear to be taking over the actual "News." Everyone is entitled to their opinions, but it seems more and more people take those opinions as fact. That you can see elsewhere as people spew out the same not-necessarily-truthful information they've seen on some other news-but-really-an-optinionaed-blog-site.
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