buzzword of Obama era is ‘transparency’

I'm sorry if that is old news. My sister explained it to me yesterday. Transparency is a value borne by the new media. People want to know where you're coming from and how you reached your conclusions.
Transparency is the sign that the playing field is level, and we meet in the discourse as equals, thanks to the millions brought into the discourse by the internet. Transparency is also the manner of the internet. Spengler has learned this lately, throwing off one of the masks that we initially thought the internet would make so common, and writing as David Goldman. The lesson is the opposite of the anonymity we initially ascribed to the internet; on the internet people want to know who you are and what you are about… Watch as even writers for the old media begin to shed their mantle of authority.