So when you heard gunshots on the Virginia Tech campus, you knew without a doubt that a media event was taking place (Washington Post). Likewise, in the United States we do not have the same risks associated with recording police circumstances as in other countries. In contrast, the government's ability to record the genocide of a people was often an everyday occurrence, and the personal risk of injury or death increased. As a result, without citizen journalism the world may not know the scale or severity of a catastrophic event such as the Indonesian tsunami or the government's genocide of its people in Middle Eastern countries such as Syria. So, the tech world is a much smaller place with the ability to share news in moments. Therefore, many of those living in war-torn countries know that it is worth the risk to inform the world of their government's atrocities 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 about the genocide in Germany earlier, surely the nations of the world would have intervened sooner if there had been citizen journalists posting photos of Jews on the Internet. and other unwanted people (according to the Nazis), are isolated