The New Citizen Media

My copy of WebProNews came in my inbox today, and the title of one article caught my attention:
CBS Just Can’t Get Along with Bloggers?

The first line in the article claims that it was bloggers who forced Dan Rather into early retirement.

It then drones on with something about Katie Couric and Move-On.org, neither of which interests me, but out came this new term – “The New Citizen Media.”
Yet another was mentioned in the email from WebProNews – “Citizen Journalist.”

My, I just like these two new terms instead of blogger. I feel so much more important now!

There was one note in the email by the editor, saying that us bloggers Citizen Journalists are not held to the same standards as the mainstream press, and where that might be true, I feel of late the mainstream press doesn’t hold to any standard anymore – and that’s where WE come in, acknowledged the editor, we seem to be granted the means to hold THEM accountable!