Want to understand how citizen media is changing how we see the world? Watch this video (via Daily Dish) of American soldiers destroying a house in Iraq. A soldier posted it to YouTube. No doubt the military will soon crack down on such an unfiltered perspective of war.

Seven Days’ deputy publisher and co-owner Cathy Resmer is a writer, editor and advocate for local journalism. She works in the paper’s Burlington office and lives vicariously through the reporters while raising money to pay them. Cathy started at...