The positives are that society will
now have the chance to see a photo of something that the journalist would have
only been able to write about.
Professional journalists need to be
careful because they have very little in the way of verifying that these are
actual photos taken from the scene of the story. In addition, the journalist
has no way of knowing if they are dealing directly with the photographer with
could be met with its fair share of copyright infringements. There might also
be the difficulty of figuring out how to compensate the photographer.
The content of the photo may be
called into question because there is not an easy way to verify that the
content of the photo is what the “dealer” says it is.
Citizen photojournalism cheapens the
work of professional photojournalists because it gives news organizations the
option of outsourcing their photo needs to more citizen journalists.
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