Have you been 'digging' the news lately?

HAVE YOU BEEN 'DIGGING' THE NEWS LATELY?
[SOURCE: The Christian Science Monitor, AUTHOR: Dante Chinni, Project for Excellence in Journalism]
[Commentary] Have you used Digg.com yet? It is part of a relatively new phenomenon on the Web: social-networking news sites (others include reddit.com and newsvine.com). And Digg is a strangely engaging place. Digg.com is part news source, part blog, and part "American Idol." Users find pages they think are interesting while surfing the Web. They then submit them to Digg. There, other users comment on the pages and vote for or against them, pushing some up to Digg's front page and others into Web oblivion. Those who dislike mainstream media (MSM) see hope in Digg's model. Social networking news sites such as Digg are fun to visit, but it is easy to imagine how they could quickly lead to a view of the world just as insular as that of the MSM, and maybe more so ­ either stuck within the preferences of the Digg crowd or the preferences of a select few Digg members whose list of "diggs" one regularly checks. It's not that there's anything wrong with that, but if your concern is being trapped by the worldview of the MSM editors, how is the worldview of the crowd on one website really better?
http://www.csmonitor.com/2007/0213/p09s01-codc.html