757hamptonroads and citizen journalists

You have heard the statistic according to NewspaperDeathWatch.com that over 8000 newspaper journalists nationwide have been "laid off"?

Soon, "citizen journalists" like bloggers will be the only remaining writers of news.

Which scares me on so many levels: like who is fact-checking? who is editing? where is the fair-and-balanced?

Read this post by fellow blogger, Russell Manning, that prompted this VERY early morning rant.