Granted, your pictures aren't news and you don't rush off to every car-accident happening. But there will be people crazy enough to do so.
People don't need to rush off in their cars and seek the news like professional reporters do. Soon, most of us will carry a camera and an internet connection in our pocket and every once in a while, we'll just happen to be at the right place at the right time. All it takes are advances in technology, and mere luck. As soon you realize that, you know that citizen journalism is unstoppable.
The one thing we'll need professional journalists for is to report events that are inaccessible to the masses (eg. a meeting between President Bush and Chinese President Hu Jintao).
Granted, your pictures aren't news and you don't rush off to every car-accident happening. But there will be people crazy enough to do so.
People don't need to rush off in their cars and seek the news like professional reporters do. Soon, most of us will carry a camera and an internet connection in our pocket and every once in a while, we'll just happen to be at the right place at the right time. All it takes are advances in technology, and mere luck. As soon you realize that, you know that citizen journalism is unstoppable.
The one thing we'll need professional journalists for is to report events that are inaccessible to the masses (eg. a meeting between President Bush and Chinese President Hu Jintao).
April 25, 2006 - 08:25