- BuzzFeed, Wednesday, December 10, 2014 11:29 AM
Citizen journalism hasn’t quite worked out as many media giants had hoped. Platforms that were designed to harness such content — CNN’s iReport and AOL’s Patch —
haven’t panned out, while the trend appears to have taken a darker turn. “In many instances, citizen journalism is something like the more troubling idea of citizen policing — that
is, vigilantism: taking the powerful, and even dangerous tools of journalism to the communities with the least responsible actors,” Buzzfeed reports.
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