The Real, Sad Lesson of Burma 2007

I fear another myth is in the offing: that Burma's brief uprising last month was a tipping point in citizen journalism. Take this from Seth Mydans' (an excellent journalist, by the way; I'm just choosing his piece because it's in front of me) article in today's IHT:

"For those of us who study the history of communication technology, this is of equal impo…