Ralph Kinney Bennett makes an interesting aside in The Best Thing That Has Ever Happened to Journalism:
Can you imagine what a job freewheeling bloggers would have done on Adolf Hitler as he was on his “way up?” A few newspapermen, scholars and politicians tried back then. But they didn’t have the cojones or the perspective or the “dirt,” or the marvelous “back channel” of the Internet to find it and get it out there.