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(xxx)Michael Cooke: citizen reporter's karaoke to real reporter's Sinatra(xxx)

Accepting the Canadian Journalism Foundation's Excellence in

Journalism award, Michael Cooke, editor of the Toronto Star, said: "Is journalism 100 unpaid bloggers all talking and yattering at once, or a city filled with amateur citizen journalists uncoordinated in all their efforts? Those bloggers and citizen reporters are as close to real reporters as karaoke is to Frank Sinatra live and in person."

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