In chapters, 4,5, and 6 Gilmore talks about the necessity people has in writing the stories the traditional media is not covering. Some citizen’s journalists write with a great passion about certain topics, and eventually they become to be experts in topics such as politics, law or even economy. These writers see the necessity to post this information on the web so that people more can see it. Moreover, Gilmore also, says that although the traditional media has the economic resources, sometimes they don’t want to invest too much time in investigative reporting because it costs too much money to do an in-depth reporting. And the stories especially on TV have to be really short.
People who has great passion for any topic will write in-depth because they care about the topics and they wonder that Online, there must be some people who are also hungry to learn more about it. One thing is true: citizen journalism is uncontrollable growing. More voices are being heard, and less people are being ignored by the big media companies, thus allowing more people to join in the conversation, something of course that traditional media does not like it, but this is a democracy and when more voices are heard, people will have a broader perspective of the issues that affect them and that the media should be covering, if they don’t, well, citizens journalist and bloggers will start the conversation themselves, because now the tools to start a conversation exist and those tools are cheap or even free.
