And the German newsmagazine Der Spiegel , usually quite positive about digital media (the website is the no 1 on political news in Germany) criticizes the quality of the citizen journalists and writes about digital gawkers who produce commentary about events that they know about from other bloggers, twitters - or the press. The author also shows the extreme rapid reaction of twitters after the attacks in a nice diagram. Another topic to think about : the need of having eye witnesses and instant explanations in the press: A Mumbay blogger writes: I was on Larry King Live on CNN about three hours ago. They called me and asked me to be on the show as an eyewitness, at which I protested that I hadn’t actually seen anything, I was merely in the vicinity. But they’d read what I wrote in this post earlier, and they wanted me to talk about that. So I agreed, and came on briefly. King asked me if I’d actually seen any terrorists—I felt guilty that I couldn’t offer him any dope there. http://indiauncut.com/iublog/article/a-night-out-in-mumbai/ - ft Larry Press wrote:
The wikipedia page on the Mumbai attacks grew to nearly 5,000 words in 6 sections and was edited over 900 times in 21 hours, see:
http://cis471.blogspot.com/2008/11/mumbai-terrorist-attack-21-hour.html
Citizen journalists also used Twitter and Flickr:
http://cis471.blogspot.com/2008/11/anyone-might-be-reporter-with-twitter.htm...
Larry Press
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