Curse of the Camera Phone

Michael Agger on Slate has a written a wonderful and lengthy article summing up some of the most memorable stories about citizen reporting and describes the cameraphone as "our era's chronicler of infamy", notably for capturing Prince Harry wearing a Nazi costume, Kate Moss snorting coke, Michael Richards racist ranting in a small theater, the phenomenon of happy slapping and the execution of Sadam Hussein.

Even better, he has rounded up and put side by side in one single clip, all the video footages. Agger signs off with these very truthful words:

Now thanks to cameraphones we'll see the best of things, we'll see the worst of things. We'll see everything.