I do not agree with the statement. Journalism is a form of art for which people need to possess a certain amount of talent, capability and skills. The key in good journalism is to render an event in a such as objective way as possible and I believe that a citizen or civic journalist can only give a one-sided and subjective view of an event. Therefore I would quicker accept something as ‘true’ from a source from which I know was created by the established (professional) journalism. However I do believe that civic journalism can complement the already established journalists. It is always wise to view a topic from different angles to avoid a one-sided vision.

Of course there are newspapers, websites , news apps and journalists with a ( political ) agenda and readers will have to keep this in mind when reading articles. Furthermore there is also a huge difference in the quality between the established journalism, but how people will judge that will be based on a personal opinion. Besides that in my opinion subjectivity isn’t necessarily something wrong because it can say a lot about the way of thinking of individuals, groups and sometimes even entire generations .