While traditional media still has its place, it's becoming clearer how influential the everyman, the social media user -- you -- has become in contrast to news outlets with seemingly large reaches. President Obama didn't deliver a statement Thursday on Ferguson because citizens' reactions were broadcast on CNN -- that was Twitter's doing. And while the media blackout in Ferguson certainly is not the norm -- "In the United States of America, police should not be bullying or arresting journalists who are trying to do their jobs," Obama said -- it does happen more than we realize.