Now professional journalists have to survive not only competition among themselves, but also from that with ordinary netizens. The only way to compete now is through the quality of their articles. That means that the age of competing through the name card "I am a New York Times reporter" has gone. When a New York Times reporter writes an article and an ordinary citizen -- whether he is a professor or a neighbor -- writes an article criticizing it splendidly, then the citizen becomes the winner.

Good interview with the creator of OhmyNews

Japan Media Review -- OhmyNews Makes Every Citizen a Reporter

] After Sept. 11, when all the newspapers were recording
] who, what, when, where -- there was a big question of
] why. Why did this happen? What's going to happen in the
] future? A lot of people were spending a lot of time
] looking for news, and I was one of them. All the servers
] were slow and it took a long time to find the content.
] Fundamentally, I wanted to build a tool that would
] automate this: Here's a new development, let's find all
] the articles that talk about this development.

OJR article: Interview with Google News Creator

] "Every time there is a tragedy or a war, an outcry
] follows about why newspapers choose to publish
] photographs of dead bodies. ... And yet tragedies need
] bodies. ... How can you not have photographs of dead
] bodies during a war?"
]
] The issue calls into question whether traditional media
] are practicing ethical journalism or censoring themselves
] when they choose to withhold certain images.

The press grapples with concerns about graphic images.

News media may withhold gruesome images, but Internet sets them free