Citizen Journalism Failure?

There was a false report that Steve Jobs had suffered a heart attack (seriously? We all know he’s too skinny. Let’s give the “health rumours” a rest until we actually hear something official, eh?) on CNN’s citizen journalism site, iReport.
The tagline for the site is “Unedited. Unfiltered. News”, but as Sarah Perez from Read Write Web points out, it’s really damn easy to become a “citizen journalist” on iReport:
Apparently, it’s as easy to become a citizen journalist on CNN as it is to sign up for a new web app from an internet startup, if not easier. The process involves …read more