I’ve been out of my mind busy the past week, so I haven’t had much of a chance to blog, but I’d like to touch on CNN’s use of citizen “journalists” for the VA Tech shooting today.

Cell phone footage is pretty cool, but I’m not comfortable giving random people (who may or may not have been close to the scene) a platform for hearsay and factual errors during regular news coverage. People called in to CNN and told their stories, but most of those stories seemed far-fetched and contradicted the fact we knew at the time, which wasn’t much.

All in all, the story has been developing rather slowly. As of this post, I don’t know the gunman’s name, yet I know the names of all the people who thought first to turn on their cell cams and Web cams when there was a rampaging lunatic on the loose.

What’s going on here?

More on this later.

Came accross this today:

I’m not sure if the young lad is on the right track, or the wrong one, considering 24/7 news’ track record of late.