USA Today | Little Green Footballs
In their rush to get the rare Big Scoop, bloggers and other citizen journalists love to blow small things out of proportion, says
Andrew Kantor. "After all, they don't have editors to say, 'You need more' or 'That's not a story.'" Amateur journalists are here to stay and they contribute tremendously to the journalism profession, he adds, but if they hope to be taken seriously they need to learn some rules. ||
Charles Johnson responds.
