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Arts & Humanities > Internet Writing & Blogging Are citizen journalists more trustworthy than professional journalists?: 5 of 17

Show me a "citizen journalist" and I will show you somebody who is either pushing a personal agenda or just writing for the fun of it. The first type of writer champions every rumor that agrees with his or her big idea; the second kind is a butterfly, skipping from topic to topic and sipping the nectar of ideas without ever getting to the root of any issue. How could anybody believe that this kind of writer is more to be trusted than a professional journalist? Oh, I know: we are all aware of the pressures journalists come under from their editors, their managements and their advertisers. T...
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