The week the news went viral

Updated on 16 April 2009

By Helene Cacace

More4 News asks, will future historians look back on this week as the moment when citizen journalism came of age?

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There was a time when you needed a publisher to publish something, a sophisticated surveillance camera to film someone, a mass political organisation to mobilise people, but no longer.

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