Via Mother Jones, citizen journalism gets a bad press:
…the newspaper industry’s embrace of “citizen journalism” has a downside. Reader-submitted content rarely gets vetted by editors. In the same month as Getz’s Wal-Mart post, the Democrat published a story by a retirement home’s development director about the complex’s great new golf course—without disclosing her job—and a woman wrote an article about a boy who’d organized a cancer charity event without noting that she’s his mom. This may sound like small-time stuff, but it exemplifies the self-defeating side effects of newspapers’ new strategy for survival.
More: http://www.motherjones.com/arts/feature/2008/01/stop-the-presses.html
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