Jeff Jarvis makes an excellent point about how the times have changed: “We have now reached the point where we could be assured that when a big news event happened, witnesses would be online with accounts of it in a matter of minutes. News was never like that. But now, that’s the way it is.”
The New York Times adds: “The technology that turns any random bystander into a ‘portable, mobile, cinematography unit’ is especially exciting for television, which depends on pictures, said Robert J. Thompson, professor of media and popular culture at Syracuse University.”
