The citizenry needs a media that is not corporately controlled in order be informed. That's why public access tv & micro-radio & blogging are so important. The citizens have all the skills they need, finely honed bullshit detectors. That's why they are so turned off by everything corporate, including corporate political parties and corporate art. New media is just old school media reborn -- tabletop printing presses and samidzat -- it's all the same. The job of new media is the same, not to reflect the garbage spewed by the corporate media, but to seek out unheard voices and amplify them. The essential information in new media is helping like minded people know they are not alone, helping them re-build the communities that used to exist before the commons was stolen from us and a shopping mall was raised there.