Chris Carroll escreveu, há já alguns dias, um texto sobre o 'citizen journalism' que me parece tocar no essencial do debate, trazendo de volta alguma sobriedade e um retrato do real muito mais rico (mas, por isso, também complexo).
A sua ideia de base: depois de Dan Gillmor ter escrito We the Media, "there was a new hero, the citizen journalist, struggling against a bad guy called the traditional journalist".
Ora, nem o velho seria tão mau nem o novo tão perfeito - diz Carroll.
"But the problem is that this ideal citizen journalist only exists in some bloggers’ views. (...) No doubt something new has appeared in the last two years and that traditional newsrooms will have to deal with these new citizen journalists. But the idea that there is an essence of citizen journalism – as replacing the so-called traditional journalism – is dead".