Via reporting from Jemima Kiss on journalism.co.uk…
Not for Jon Snow the silliness of trying to corral citizen journalists into being "witness contributors". The influential Channel 4 News anchor yesterday told the Guardian‘s Changing Media Summit that in fact citizen journalism would "professionalise" journalism and help re-build public trust in the press by making them more accountable and transparent.
He went on to say that big media organisations actually prop up mediocre or poor journalists: "I don’t have anything against alcoholics, but when I entered journalism frankly there were plenty of people that just shouldn’t have been there. Massive media organisations protect these people."
Ben Hammersley backs him up in no uncertain terms – check out Ms Kiss’s post for the full gory details…
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