So when he heard gunshots on the Virginia Tech campus, he knew without a doubt that a media event was taking place (Washington Post). Likewise, in the United States we do not face the same risks associated with recording police circumstances as in other countries. While the possibility of government genocide of a people being recorded is often an everyday occurrence and the personal risk of injury or death is heightened. As a result, without a citizen journalist, the world might not know the scale or severity of a catastrophic event such as the Indonesian tsunami or government genocide of the population of Middle Eastern countries like Syria. Therefore, the technological world is a much smaller space with the ability to share current events in moments. Therefore, for many who live in war-torn countries, they know that it is worth taking the risk to inform the world of the atrocities committed by their government and the personal tragedies of its people. For example, I can only think back to the years before World War II, and if the world had known sooner about the genocide taking place in Germany, surely the nations of the world would have intervened sooner if citizen journalists had published articles on the Internet. photos of Jews. and other unwanted people (according to the Nazis), locked in