When is a Citizen Journalist not a Citizen Journalist?

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There are plenty of people who really don’t like the term “citizen journalism,” but Todd Wolfson has a pretty interesting reason of his own for his displeasure with that appellation: plenty of the people he is training to make video reports for the Internet aren’t citizens at all -- at least of the United States. (Committee of Concerned Journalists)

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