Tuesday 7 January 2014

Do Citizen Journalists Need a Code of Ethics?



Do Citizen Journalists Need a Code of Ethics?

"A blog is not writing. It is graffiti with punctuation." This now famous and quite wonderfully dismissive line is delivered in the movie Contagion by Elliot Gould's character to Jude Law's character. In fact, according to a posting by blogger Tim Baran, graffiti may actually be more long-lasting than a blog, which is estimated to have a "shelf-life" of relevancy of a mere 12 hours. That's for a good blog, and even the worst graffiti takes longer than that to erase.

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