Japanese disaster shows limits of citizen journalism

In viewing video of the aftermath of the Japanese earthquake, MediaPost’s Erik Sass says the most valuable footage came from professional news organizations.

The pros were able to use traffic helicopters to focus on the most important developments such as the advancing tsunami and fires while amateurs tended to try to film too much and ended up with little of import. -db

From a commentary in MediaPost, Friday, March 11, 2011, by Erik Sass.

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