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Reconsidering Carr’s citizen journalism essay

By Michael Becker | Published: November 17, 2009
A few days ago, I posted an excerpt from a TechCrunch arti­cle by Paul Carr, who argues that cit­i­zen jour­nal­ism — which he partly asso­ciates with the urge to grab a cam­era phone instead of try­ing to help — is noth­ing but ego­tism bor­der­ing on a detach­ment from human­ity. “As long as we’re all los­ing [...]
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Citizen journalism has a cost

By Michael Becker | Published: November 7, 2009
Normally, I’m pretty gung-ho for social media and cit­i­zen jour­nal­ism. I really do believe that jour­nal­ism isn’t some high-and-mighty, elit­ist pro­fes­sion. Real peo­ple with drive and curios­ity can report news and write analy­sis, regard­less of their educations. As such, cit­i­zen report­ing is a good thing because I gen­er­ally think “the more infor­ma­tion to work with, [...]
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