Look, Ma! I'm on the news!

BBC contributor, Jo Twist, thinks 2005 was "The Year of the Digital Citizen" http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/4566712.stm.  Victims providing live images of catastrophes.  Will a media organization in 2020 simply fact checking and aggregating news and images citizens produce?   Surely an inexpensive way to generate content.  A billion unpaid stringers seems like a good business decision to me.

But pardon my skepticism.  Political vlogs as mandatory?  Citizens are eager to view political vlogs?  Seems just hype to scare politicians into purchasing consulting services to create vlogs.