End of one-way news.

Jeff Jarvis on the death of the Dan Rathers of news... what should rise in their place.

The idea that we should just sit there and watch as someone reads the news to us is -- now that we see the alternatives -- quaint at best, condescending at worst. Why the hell should we ever have let Dan Rather decide what's important to us and how we should should look at it? How did we ever tolerate listening to the news from him without taking the opportunity to talk back?

It's the top-down, one-way, one-size-fits-all news-extruding machine that's ready for the mothballs. It's the old view of delivering the news that's antiquated. We no longer wait for the news to come to us; now the news waits for us to go get it. We are in control.