Tonight at 11, news by neighbors / Santa Rosa TV station fires news staff, to ask local folks to provide programming

Who is looking over his / her shoulder at this wave of citizen journalism now?

Tonight at 11, news by neighbors / Santa Rosa TV station fires news staff, to ask local folks to provide programming Tonight at 11, news by neighbors
Santa Rosa TV station fires news staff, to ask local folks to provide programming

This is good news and bad news.

News executives are scared as hell. Media owners are now in the game because of ego or other reasons, beyond profits of the status quo. When musical chairs means the folks with the cameras and microphones are given pink slips -- things get more and more weird.

Perhaps I'll file a story there.

Trust is a big word thought the article. But, what happens when a the City Paper article on "Going to the local Political Blogs" omits early arrivals? Is that any way to build trust? GrassRootsPA's blog started years ago in Pittsburgh by a D.U. student. That site is a hub for local content harvesting.