Listening Post - Citizen journalism - 01 August 08 Part 2

This week, we have put together a special broadcast focusing on what's possibly one of the most debated news trends and one of the most well-known, citizen journalism. Critics call it journalism on the cheap, unskilled hacks putting out stories that are heavy on opinion and light on fact. According to those championing amateur reporters, it is a way to keep mainstream media honest and in some cases, it's just about the only way to get a story out.

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News & Politics

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• Listening
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• citizen
• journalism
• Al
• Jazeera
• English

[aquamammal]

Thanks Al Jazeera. Your content won't be replaced by CJ, but thankfully News Corp. will crumble.

But real quick, that sun glasses vid is old as fuck...

XVX for life, R.A.S.H. 'til death.

[400hurdle]

That sunglasses youtube video was amateur level computer graphics, in layman terms, its fake and it was made for entertainment purposes.

Thank you for presenting the pros and cons of citizen journalism even though there was a potential conflict of interest, the opportunity was available to you to try to discredit your competition, but you gave both sides of this story.

Thanks.

[Organjic]

MSM can easily discredit online media reporting. Hate to break it to you Aljazeera, but online journalists will overtake the TV media, especially if MSM distorts.