Citizen media perils
The Wall Street Journal points out that publishing reader submissions or "citizen journalism" raises legal concerns, particularly since they are reviewed before they are posted online.
"It's not like a blog or a bulletin board where people just throw things up and the publisher has no control," says Marc Gorelnik, an attorney at Townsend and Townsend and Crew LLP in San Francisco. "They're editing it, and they're choosing to place it there, so there's potential for liability."
Gary Bostwick, an attorney with Sheppard, Mullin, Richter & Hampton in Los Angeles who defends media companies against libel claims, added: "It seems to me that it's fraught with dangers."
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