Deconstructing Citizen Journalism

              Citizen journalist and citizen journalism is something that has a conterversy because of how there is people out there willing to do everything a journalist would do but without getting paid. Journalists are loosing their jobs because of this. Blogs are growing everyday with information about citizens. This cites are winning journalism awards. In the year 1996 there was a change to the US Telecommunications Act  which meant that publishers were now owning and earning revenue from journalists. Then journalists decided to stop asking publishers to publish their information and began to put their information out there without their consent. Citizen Journalists have both negative and positive terms. The positive include democratize, pluralize, and enable. The negative are devalue, erode, and undermine. The citizen journalists are known as the story seekers and the “professional busybodies”. These journalists are afraid that the might have a lot of competition from citizens voices and also they say how they are concerned about quality.