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Steve Paulussen
(post-doctoral fellow at
Ghent University
) states that Belgian's most popular city blog,
Gentblogt
, can't compete with
De Standaard's online news outlet
. Steve argues that Belgium doesn't have enough amateur journalists.
Pol Deltour, secretary of the
Flemish Association of Journalists
claims that citizen journalism is less credible and not as trustworthy as professional journalism. He argues that
NowPublic
does not have the resources to verify the correctness of their correspondents' footage.
The one page article about
NowPublic
and citizen journalism as published in the August 4 edition of
De Standaard
. The article has good things to say about NowPublic.