I am sitting here in Denver at The Big Tent seeing something that could not happen without net neutrality.

At this event (which we co-sponsored) there are hundreds of citizen journalists using the new media to create real time coverage of the Democratic National Convention, coverage about the coverage, commentary about it, commentary about the commentary, etc. The Internet's neutral nature is what allows this to thrive.

There are people here blogging for scores of different major websites like Daily Kos and Slate.com and smaller websites like www.turnmaineblue.com. There are people using videocameras to create content to post to youtube and other video websites. And through the online forums as well as the personal interaction here, we are seeing the same kind of "newsroom" collaboration that we are losing at the newspapers all across America as big corporations like News Corp gobble up local papers and force them to cut back on reporting and just fill their papers with nationally produced content.

The kind of collaboration you saw in "All the President's Men" is alive and well, and it's here in the Big Tent. But as I said earlier, without net neutrality, this could all go away.