Dorian is right about Alberto - he's going to offer a valuable perspective. I suspect Marissa Mayer will too given her work with the Knight Foundation's Commission on the Information Needs of Communities. I wonder if anyone will question her on rights, media economics and Google's role in news distribution.

These hearings are clearly skewed toward institutions, but that's what they're about: the downfall of institutions. They don't seem to be about the rise of We Media. The context is a proposal to provide a government bailout for failing news companies. Perhaps alternative viewpoints will be included in subsequent hearings, including We Media, social investment and entrepreneurship.