History

It has been said the news is the first draft of history. More news is moving to the blogsphere so our first draft of history is getting closer to the participants in the events that we later call history. But history changes with every new draft; from blog, to news web site, to newspaper, to news magazine, to books, and in the long run in the analysis. Where is the truth? People in the middle of todays headlines do not have perspective but they have skin in the game. My hope is that we learn from history but what gets reported and later analyzed needs to be relavant. Too much is recorded that is of no lasting value. Who cares if some starlet lots 3lbs while in jail? I want to know what events lead to todays headlines and how we can change for the better.