Once again, solid proof that "citizen journalists" are breaking news to the world -- this time of the ongoing crackdown on protest in Myanmar. Surprisingly, this "MSM" report from the usually staid Wall Street Journal heralds the fact that "Citizen witnesses are using cellphones and the Internet to beam out images of bloodied monks and street fires, subverting the Myanmar government's effort to control media coverage and present a sanitized version of the uprising. The events are a trial by fire for so-called citizen journalists, who cover events that professional journalists can't get to." And more evidence that, as one local professional journalist points out, "The more they try to suppress information, the more will come out."

would it be to much to ask.....who if profiting from the present regime...where the weapons are coming from....who is invested in Mynamar.......quite a glaring error as far as I can tell.....Who What Where When Why?

Gives a fair assessment of the role citizen journalists are playing in media coverage of events where journalists cannot gain access - as well as the risks involved.

A well done piece about the shifting of power in the media.