Because actual Amazon-braving, dysentery-getting, foxhole-hovering journalists don’t have enough to bitch about already what with crappy pay and self-entitled bloggers, Yahoo! fuels the fire with You Witness News, a beta service that magically converts any kid on the street with a camera phone into a paid member of the photojournalist elite.
The idea has potential considering a guy with a camera phone fully recorded the unfuckingbelievable horrors of that UCLA student tasing incident awhile back. We’ll see where it goes. In any event, it’ll be fun to watch the sparks fly among the watchdogs of the profession. – Contributed by Angela Natividad
