Mainstream media sites increasingly welcome citizen participation

Any surprise in this Missouri School release? Not for me.

[D]espite ongoing reports of financial troubles and cutbacks, legacy media are more comprehensive and more technologically advanced than citizen media and bloggers.

But check out Mizzou don Esther Thorson:

One of the biggest surprises we found was that mainstream media Web sites were almost as welcoming to citizen participation as citizen journalism sites, and they were far more welcoming than blogs...

More here.