I think Mayhill Fowler is one of the few good citizen journalists, making a contribution to this society and profession. Citizen journalism in itself is tricky because of sourcing and fact-checking and you never really know how accurate a person's account on something is. But I like Fowler because she describes herself as an amateur Web Journalist and an ordinary person who happened to get former President Bill Clinton's words for Vanity Fair writer, Todd Purdum on tape. I think that there are pros and cons about the way she went about getting her interview and she most certainly didn't obtain her info the "regular" journalistic way, however, nonetheless it was still groundbreaking info. http://www.latimes.com/news/politics/la-na-fowler7-2008jun07,0,7613904,full.story
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