We had an interesting email come in the Powers That Be here at Mizzou the other day. It was from Vadim Gorelik, one of the people run the citizen journalism Web site Neaju, promoting the siteâ??s work and some of their activities. A couple lines from an email exchange caught my attention (and emphasis is mine):
As a mentor to future journalists, I am certain you are aware of increasing profiteering and sensationalism that is increasingly dominating American journalism, often at the expense of the value we all hold near and dear to our hearts â?? journalistic integrity. It is for that reason that weâ??ve created the first true citizen journalism site on the Internet â?? www.Neaju.com.
The first â??trueâ? cit-j site. When our own Clyde Bentley wrote back and pointed out that OhMyNews has been online for, like, the whole millenium so far and that others (including MyMissourian) had been up since 2004 and beyond, the response was even more interesting.
