Citizen journalists may be bigger than anyone ever thought possible. If anything interesting happens, it is probably on somebodies blog somewhere. And using search engines such as Google, duh, enables people to find this information that otherwise would be lost in the crevices of the internet. In fact, citizen bloggers may even have a hand in the recent bringing down of newspapers. Newspaper subscriptions around the country are being canceled while the newspapers themselves become smaller and smaller. Citizen journalists provide a very useful service at a very reasonable price, free. There are not enough Journalists to be everywhere at once, but bloggers can be, and they are. Citizen journalists may very well put real Journalists out of a job, but by providing the same service at a better rate.
Now, understandably, not all citizen journalists are going to be quite up to par in terms of writing the things that they see, but most of them can be trusted to be honest about what they have seen, at least as honest as the Journalists. In a way, it will be like Wikipedia news, there will be much more information available, and it is usually accurate, but there will always be crazy people that write things that never should have been written. But overall, I think it is a service that people will find very helpful and informative.
The Resting Three
16 years ago
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It's almost kind of a shame that citizen journalists are in a way stealing real journalists jobs away from them. Also it's kind of sad that Newspapers are slowly dying away because the internet is so full with all the news that would be possibly on the front page of the newspaper.