Social media is not journalism

As many countries are finding, you’re only as good as your media. The killing of Geneva-based German photographer Anja Niedringhaus in Afghanistan brought it all home. Here was a world-class photographer who laid down her life (unintentionally) to bring back the images that so many of us have come to take for granted, or for free. We assume that just because such reporting can be found on the internet, it’s there for us to benefit, like Google, Facebook or Twitter.