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• 1. Allen  |  July 31st, 2008 at 1:01 pm

  Are they really “citizen journalists” or people with cameras who are in the right place at the right time? Why is the word “journalist” even brought up?

• 2. Brink  |  July 31st, 2008 at 3:08 pm

  Because it is trendy to do so.

  Home videos on the internet do not equal “journalism.”

• 3. Anonymous  |  August 2nd, 2008 at 3:15 am

  “There are 8 million Handycams in the City Of Angels…every single one of them owned by a budding Spielberg, a new Murrow and the next Serling rolled into a happy little Prozac pill. People come to me with their dreams and watch me light my cigar illegally with them in a public smoke-free nightmare. You call me outrageous and I call for Chinese.meals as your wannabe hopes die faster than your camcorder battery. I’m no sadomasochist, lady, I’m the news director at a station so far into a swamp that I get all of Pogo’s email…fancy that! No offemse intended. Just go home and pick up the dishes and don’t forget to watch Eyewitness News, will ya?

• 4. MSM  |  August 4th, 2008 at 12:44 pm

  Don — did you actually LOOK at these videos? There’s the Judge Judy taping, multiple dubs of various local newscasts … plus a comic strip-tease (the earthquake shakes the clothes off), plus an apocalyptically-toned ITN report from the “big one” years ago. Digging past all of that, there are a handful of interesting user-generated videos of the actual quake.

• 5. Anonymous  |  August 7th, 2008 at 10:20 pm

  Not any of them featuring Bill Haley and gis Comets, I’ll bet.

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