Google Video has an episode of WGBH's "Thinking Big" from October 2005 titled "News in the Digital Age". Rebecca MacKinnon, formerly CNN's top person in north Asia, provides a good overview of how blogs are improving (but not replacing) the news as we know it. The show details the benefits that a personal point of view brings to news stories, but it is clear that not all bloggers stand up to the same journalistic rigors as most professional journalists hold themselves to.

It touches a bit on government censorship as well.

Read the transcript here.

Grab the video here in .mov format or here on Google Video.