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Gillmor chs. 5-7, due 10-30, 5pm

By longaker
Created 28 Oct 2005 - 3:00pm

In chapters 6-7, Gillmor anticipates a concern that someone coming from Lippmann’s perspective might voice: citizen-journalists won’t know enough to set the news agenda or to cover events responsibly and effectively. Gillmor argues that the mob may bungle things, but there are two forces able to prevent half-informed citizens from making a mess of the news: reporters checking citizen journalism to ensure its quality and citizen journalists checking one another (with 1,000 eyes, all bugs are shallow). Do you think that these countervailing forces are enough to address Lippmann’s concerns about the ineptitude of the average citizen? In your answer, give specific reference to a site (blog, forum, etc.) where citizen journalism is still dangerous despite these countervailing forces or where journalists and other citizens keep things honest and ably performed.

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