Blogging Makes History
Captain's Quarters, a blog written by Edward Morrissey, a Minnesotan and self-described "libertarian conservative" has helped blogging change history.
Morrissey's blog has been carrying an eye-witness account of the public corruption hearing in Toronto centering on the highest levels of the Canadian Liberal Party. A Canadian federal judge instituted a publishing ban covering the hearing in Canada with a flimsy rationale. Canadian news media posted the URL for Captian's Quarters for all Canadians to read; it received 400,000 hits yesterday.
Morrissey, a staunch conservative and Republican, says, "These information bans are self-defeating for free societies. The politicans know, the media knows, but the Canadian voters are left in the dark..."
As of today, the judge had at least partially lifted the ban, almost without doubt due to the information getting out through Captian's Quarters.
You can't keep important information secret in a world filled with bloggers, and this is truly a change for the better.
Related link: New York Times coverage
Posted by Harold Davis at April 7, 2005 12:20 PM
