This made me smile. Not saying I agree. Just made me smile.
A definition of citizen journalist by Seth Finkelstein in response to a post by Dan Gillmor about defining the loaded term
“person who wants to have things both ways, by claiming all the privileges which attach to the role of “journalist”, while disclaiming all the [...]

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Jay Rosen goes multimedia with his definition of Citizen Journalism

It’s such a rich definition in that it doesn’t really define what it does as much as it defines why it’s such a challenge for the mainstream media. And perhaps why they can’t get a handle on it.
Jay cam up with the definition a while back- [...]

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Robin and Alf ( thanks guys) posted on the BBC’s Jeremy Paxman “arrogance or a joke that misfired?” about submitting videos to the Newsnight website.
You could say something about an old school attitudes misplaced confidence in the security of their medium but sometimes a joke is a joke.  that misfired is probably a better explanation.
I [...]

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