Halo of the week to Lex Alexander

...who today posted the text of his talk on Working in the Glass House: Newspapers in the Age of Blogs, Grassroots Journalism and Transparency.
Excerpt:

...we've got three ways we can respond. We can get all defensive and arrogant. We can take the kind of absolutely silent approach that comes across as defensive and arrogant. Or we can acknowledge in fact what we always say whenever we're pushing for more liberal open-records laws: We're a public trust. ...

If you're at all interested in this stuff, go read it.