I’m a city boy. I love crowds. I believe in crowds.
But let’s get serious about the usefulness of crowdsourced hard-news reporting at the local level.
Every example of how Twitter, etc., is theoretically changing journalism seems to rely on extremely unusual tragedies, disasters or sensations.
I don’t know about your hometown paper, but in the one I work for, almost all of what you’d call “breaking news” (aside from the sports and arts coverage) falls into one of four areas:
