Dave Winer server on jury duty and shares his reflections on how important amateurs are in the Do It Yourself, American scheme of things...including jounalism:
"It's good that everyone gets a chance to be a journalist. That doesn't mean that everyone will be one, but it's important that everyone can be one if they want to. So teach the kids to be journalists, take the mystique out of it, show them how to vet a source, what integrity means, how to think for themselves."Well said, Dave. An unexercised freedom, is a freedom vulnerable to erosion.