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1. By the end of 2005, there were an estimated 20 million
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A active blogs worldwide.
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2. Sites such as ‘Global Voices’, based at Harvard University, collect
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B as an army of fact-checkers who will call to account any news source who gets their facts wrong.
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3. Independent citizen–journalists do not just break stories, but also act
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C photos which they have taken with their camera phones.
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4. Technology also allows the mainstream
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D data from blogs to supply journalists with an alternative news feed.
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5. Not only can people around the world file their own accounts of breaking news stories via the internet, but also upload
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E media, such as the BBC, to tap into citizen news gatherers.
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F sources provide classified information.
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