Citizen news coverage of the Hussein execution
Mashable has a short piece on the significance of the unedited Saddam Hussein execution video which has leaked onto the internet. Cashmore writes:
what’s becoming abundantly clear is that information can no longer be suppressed - with cameraphones, video-sharing sites and thousands of independent bloggers, not to mention the social filters and rating systems that help us find the most interesting content, this media will always become available online.
This is not, in fact, a new phenomenon. Ogrish.com always carried unedited video clips that the mainstream press was too squeamish to air. Successor site Liveleak.com has continued. The only real difference, now, is the ready availability of much higher quality cameras in small form factors.
