Camera Phone Reviews

Good article over at the Times Online on Citizen Reporters a phenomena emerging alongside the camera phone:

'WHAT A DIFFERENCE a week and a sizeable terrorist outrage can make to the public image of camera phones. Until now, camera and video phones have been associated only with pop culture, prurience and paedophilia. When they first arrived a couple of years ago, some of London’s trendiest nightclubs banned them in an effort to mollify their celebrity clientele. A Home Office task force was even briefed with examining the threat to child safety, even though there were no actual arrests of paedophiles armed with mobile phones.

Now all those perverts and nosy parkers have morphed into intrepid “citizen reporters”. Minutes after last week’s bombings, newsrooms were being deluged with e-mailed pictures offering every conceivable perspective on the attacks. On the day of the bombs alone, the BBC received about 1,000 phone photos from the public. On the internet, more gruesome pictures were circulating. Citizen reporters were not only proving themselves useful to news editors but to the authorities; the Metropolitan Police appealed for the public to send in any mobile phone images that might help with its inquiries...'

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