More votes for citizen journalism

From New Media Musings: A 70% media consumer dissatisfaction rate is part of the catalyst behind MediaChannel.org's willingness to explore citizen journalism. Tired of the conservative bias and "commercial imperatives" within the media, MediaChannel.org wants to follow in the footsteps of sites such as South Korea?s OhmyNews.

?In Korea, readers? dissatisfaction and distrust with the conventional press had considerably increased. Citizens? desire to express themselves greatly increased,? said founder of OhmyNews Oh Yeon Ho.

His site has been credited with influencing the election of a president.

Media.org's Danny Schechter also points to the forces of Google and Wikipedia to illustrate the success of active consumerism on the Web thus far.

"You get the feeling that we are living in the last days of our media system," he wrote.