CBS Mobile Citizen Journalism Experiment Goes Awry

Recently CBS launched an iPhone app called Eyemobile that lets users become citizen journalists, making it easy for folks to upload news to its user-generated news site, cbseyemobile.com. However, AdAge reports that things aren’t going exactly as planned. We’ll just quote this to make it easy:

“Karl Johnson, chief operating officer of BrandContent, a Boston-based agency, uploaded the app last night and saw a picture of a young woman bent over her kitchen stove, her skirt hiked up.

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