Response Post

Citizen journalism is still puzzling and fascinating to me in that its new and so interactive that there is not much policing or order to it, nor is there definition yet really. (And maybe there shouldn’t be) I do feel like it is a good change for our news in that more and more people can become involved in the news and more points of view can be conveyed. Also, stories can get out so much faster now. People can have access to the back story almost as quickly as it happens.

Right now, I feel like the credibility of citizen journalism is not all there. I feel like people will have to become more comfortable with the idea of this community news before they can complete trust it. I do think that eventually everyone will find worth in this and be able to separate the “Crop from the crap”. Once people learn how to decipher which parts of the news group reporters are reliable then the credibility will increase and people’s comfort with the whole idea will improve.