The top story in today's news is a security alert at Heathrow airport after a man with a rucksack climbed the fence and ran at the path of a plane. It all came too nothing, but a security breach at one of the worlds busiest airports is defiantly news and of course it deserves a massive amount of coverage.
What I don't understand is the he piece at the bottom of the news item on the BBC website which says
Are you at Heathrow? Did you see the incident? Send us your pictures and information using the forms below.
Send your pictures to yourpics@bbc.co.uk, text them to 61124 or you have a large file you can upload here.
Surely in terms of citizen journalism this is the equivalent of scraping at the very bottom of the barrel. What are they expecting? Someone to have filmed the man getting in? The man wasn't near any of the terminals so I can't see how anyone could have been filming him. And from that distance even if they were they wouldn't be able to see much. I haven’t seen any evidence of citizen journalists contributing to this story so far. Maybe I’ll be proved wrong, but I don't see how appeals can be made for citizen journalists to come forward with their pictures and videos when it comes to this story.
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