Although this article illustrates how ordinary people can participate in news gathering, it is extraordinarily naïve to believe that the existing corporate concentrated ownership of media will faithfully pass on the information over their airways. Corporate media must be returned to the people so that information can serve the latter's interests. Of course, corporate media likes to have citizens reporting news to them because they can cut down on paid journalists while continuing to control what is being broadcast or printed.
Media groups, particularly the Philippines’ two biggest television networks, have embraced citizen journalism through the use of mobile phones to deliver the news.
