While YouTube is embedded in the souls of this generation as a good web site for user generated content of videos, CNN is trying a different approach in its new launch of its Citizen Media Web site.
The site, iReport.com, is set up for user-generated content the audience can submit photos and videos.
The network has already received nearly 100,000 news-related photos and videos from viewers, but has only published or aired about 10 percent.
But should CNN of all companies restrict the content that is being put up on its Web site. For credibility, I would say yes, and that's a major yes. If anything can be posted on the user-generated site, than what is to stop people from posting photos and videos of explicit behavior.
This could very well be the next Wikipedia. But if it shows us anything, it is that we have come along way in journalism, especially now where we can share things with our peers.
Here is the link to an article on Poynter:
http://www.poynter.org/column.asp?id=32&aid=138326
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