Not-So-Breaking-News: CNN Says We Will All Die on March 35, 2041. Really.

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UGM — These three letters have pretty much meant the end of the world as we know it, to quote a notable lyric. Only this time, it was literal.

What does it mean? User-Generated Media. Have smartphone, will report. This means all that journalism studying done by serious reporters doesn’t amount to a thing if some schlep with a Samsung Note can tweet a shaky video to national news.

TMZ uses it. Discredited blogs use it. And even the biggies use it, most commonly CNN and its fabled “iReport.”

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