Now for the coverage!
Are you looking for a CJ coverage alternative to the London Olympics and Paralympics?
Organization #media 2012 looks to be the best source for it. They have been organizing volunteers since last year and have gotten some good buzz.
For those interested in the history of citizen journalism and the Olympics, Professor Andy Miah of the University of West Scotland has posted the Prezi slideshow of his keynote address to the Political Studies Association Sport and Politics Group in 2012.
The Guardian has a piece about citizen journalists charting Scotland’s Olympic torch relay through an organization called Citizen Relay.
Refusing to be outdone in the xenophobe/racism department by TV station MBC, NoCut News has published a series of stories titled, “The Reality and Twisted Values of Some White Men.” This is on the tail of a series of stories about a foreign graduate student who allegedly (totally relying on one anecdotal source in typical tabloid style) filmed himself having sex with Korean women.
English language blogs The Marmot’s Hole and Gusts of Popular Feeling break down these articles and point out the bad journalism and inaccuracies.
Emily Sutherlin at NowPublic has put together a piece about a Florida teen who had the wherewithal to take steps to survive an alligator attack while swimming in a river. The one bit that made me raise my eyebrows is that as soon as he recovers, he wants to go back swimming in that river.
I don’t wave my arm at Fate like that.
Credit: CNN iReport
Amidst all the flotsam in CNN iReport, I’ve found an account by a visitor to Mexico on police getting a little overzealous over people talking about possible election rigging in public.