Did London Bombings Turn Citizen Journalists Into Citizen Paparazzi Summary
In the short article, Did London Bombings Turn Citizen Journalists into Citizen paparazzi? Mark Glaser discusses how people chose to respond and document the events on July 7, 2005, after terrorists boomed three underground trains and a double decker bus in London, England. He gives personal testimonies about how survivors of the attack walked out of the train station in order to get some fresh air. Only to find that many bystanders were standing around taking pictures and videos of the victims and survivors. One survivor said that the bystanders, “could have done well to clear the area rather than clog it” (Glaser, 488). Comparing the way people act when there is an accident on the highway; slowing down in order to stare at what is happening,