Do you think citizen journalism upholds or undermines American values? Why?

In journalism there are many aspects that a writer must learn before wrtiting. For example, in Journalism this year the whole first semester of this year we learned style guide and the different rules one must understand in order to follow rules in writing so there is no bias. Once you learn this you can begin writing. But you also learn along the way just like anything we learn. To have random people writing in the newspaper would be ike having someone making up information on the news channel. None would like that and it would cause bias, propoganda, and false information. In class we talked about how it would be tough having anyone writing whatever they wanted and published because there aren't solid sources just like on Wikipedia or blogs online. We read this information but it isn't always true. Everyone knows that just because we hear something on the television or in the newspaper sometimes it isn't the truth it still is taken as literal. The news isn't always true based on false information from a reliable source, people mixing their views into the article or story, or even people ignoring the truth and publishig something more interesting. If our trained writers and newscasters aren't always 100 percent right then how could untrained writers do any better? We should leave it to the people who have degrees in that field and stick to word of mouth and writing blogs.