Glaser Article: Can you find any examples where "citizen journalists" have failed miserably to report accurate news? And if you do find examples (you should), does this make the concept of amateur journalism a bad thing? Why or why not?
One of the examples that I found was when the conservative bloggers discredited documents related to President Bush. I think that this is a prime example of why we can not take everything the news says. Amateur journalism is an integral part of the media, and needs to be respected. I do not support amateur journalism, although that may seem harsh, because of problems like this where biast views are brought into play.
Nicholas,
ReplyDeleteIf you are personally not supporting it, how do you still respect it? Does it have any role in your own methods of getting news?