CBS Gets a Rude Lesson in Citizen Journalism

Like a lot of news networks, CBS jumped on the citizen journalism bandwagon with a free iPhone app, Eyemobile for iPhone, to make it easy for users to upload news to its user-generated news site, CBSeyemobile.com.

Interesting, though, the citizens' definition of "news." AdAge reports.

"Karl Johnson, chief operating officer of BrandContent, a Boston-based agency, uploaded the app last night and saw a picture of a young woman bent over her kitchen stove, her skirt hiked up. Later he saw video of three women performing sexual acts on one another.

... CBS does have a moderator, but it seems the system isn't working, or perhaps not as well as they would like."

emily | 10:12 AM | Citizens as Camera Phone Reporters |
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