The article says it flat out: How can it be that an internet nerd out for a few laughs suddenly have a full time job because of it?
It is amateur in a sense, because it takes someone out of their element and instead throws them into a professional world they had no intention of ever entering. Citizen journalists are by definition people who aim to diffuse information only for the purpose of getting that information out. They have no intention of making a career out of journalism, or even pursuing it consistently. Our internet is pushing people into the spotlight who have no business being put there. Furthermore, do they really want to be?
And even if they want to be... can they handle it? Generally those thrust into the spotlight, cannot cope or keep up with the demands required, particularly when they transform from an internet-happy basement crawler to a spotlighted blogger.
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