Peoria Pundit

At approximately 1 p.m. yesterday, a man named Janis Krums made the following post to his Twitter account:

http://twitpic.com/135xa – There’s a plane in the Hudson. I’m on the ferry going to pick up the people. Crazy. about 23 hours ago from TwitPic.

But, but, but … he’s not a reporter. He’s not in the pay of a company that owns a printing press or a broadcast license. There’s no evidence he ever took a college course in journalism. He’s just a guy with a cell phone.

What gives him the right to perform an act of journalism? Doesn’t he know he needs a thousand-dollar Nikon to snap a pic like that?

Welcome to the new media.

ALSO: Three days before becoming a Twitter star, he post an article to his blog about how Twitter is making people better communicators.

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