A good article on citizen journalism has come to my attention.Vin Crosbie writing on Digital Deliverence writes that
" citizen journalism is a supplement, not a panacea. Citizen journalism itself isn't going to reverse the declines in news readership, listernership, and viewership. Not by a longshot. The real solution requires more than just the tools that folks in our industry are calling 'citizen journalism' and that are providing so much distraction. "
He argues that the right of the ordinary person to comment on the news has always been there for example thru the letters page.technology has now made this interaction a lot easier to manage and news organisations should always be aware of this interaction but as he quite rightly says
"Too much of what's being cloaked or prattled about in our industry as 'citizen journalism' isn't journalism at all and a lot of it is simply b*llsh#t."
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