'Everybody now is a member of the media'

The Business Times (Singapore): 'Everybody now is a member of the media.'

There's a whole proliferation of this, according to Mr Gowing: pictures being sent down telephone lines, people calling up radio and TV stations on their mobiles, people e-mailing stories of what they've seen, people challenging the views put out by governments and backing it up with evidence. Just ordinary people, not professional journalists.