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India: Lack of Original Citizen Media Reporting

Friday, November 28th, 2008 @ 09:26 UTC

by Rezwan

Countries:: India
Topics:: Cyber-Activism, Disaster, Internet & Telecoms, War & Conflict
Languages:: English

Gauravonomics Blog analyzes the role of social media and citizen journalism in the 11/26 Mumbai terror attacks and opines: “The (..) terror attack was a time for first-hand original reporting, and the Indian blogosphere didn’t quite rise to the task.”

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