Citizen journalism

A task force in Quebec recommends the certification of journalists

UPDATE: This is the posting where I invited Inkless readers and bloggers across the country to post their accounts of local all-candidates meetings. Several have — both in the comments section below, and on their own blogs. I wanted to bump this post up, first to thank and acknowledge everyone who’s shared their impressions of local debates, and second to encourage anybody who hasn’t done so to post their own accounts in the comments. Or if you just want to complain that we’re profiteering off your free labour, feel free to do that too. — pw

It’s gotta wear a guy down constantly having to convince everyone you’re not dead. Steve Jobs had to reassert his worldly existence once again today. It’s becoming an almost weekly event. This time someone posted an item on ireport.com, CNN’s website for so-called citizen journalists, saying Jobs had suffered a heart attack. The stock tanked 5 per cent before Apple said the claim was false. The ireport website advertises itself as “unedited. unfiltered.” How about adding: untrue.