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

Have you got a link to this?

Another topic to think about : the need of having eye witnesses and instant explanations in the press:

This reminds me of the 1991 Soviet coup attempt, during which my colleagues and I used USENET News to keep information flowing into and out of Russia. ABC requested an interview at the time, but to have granted it might have compromised the position of our Russian networking colleagues. The terrorists were probably following eye-witness tweets and Flickr photo streams during the Mumbai attacks. Larry