How does the online news environment blur the distinction between news and information? Logan mentions Northwestern’s Rich Gordon, who says that for citizen-journalism to be effective, the enterprise needs a “citizen-editor.” What is the role of the citizen editor? Do you agree with Gordon here? Why or why not?

The online news environment makes the distiction between news and information a heck of a line to find. There is alot of information out on the web, but only a small fraction of that information is news. News is information that is relavent to a large group of people, and usually has some sort of time restraint on it. Information can be presnted in the news, but it is only news when it is timely and relevant.

The role of the the citizen editor should be to guide a citizen jounralist in the direction of what is important.Part of what blurs the line from newa and information is the person who is presenting it. most people will accept it as news when they read it from a credible sourse, like if broke a story on this blog, it would basically be information, until you could confirm it.