Thank you for this Sarah! That site is the same one that reported 50cent died in a car accident. ugh. - Mona Nomura

I'm OK with CNN running this stuff as long as the citizen section is heavily wrapped in "might not be real" warnings. - Daniel J. Pritchett from FriendFeed MT Plugin

Irresponsible nonsense. Imagine the shock a member of the Jobs family might have felt on reading this trash. - John Samuelson

Great post and just exposes how dangerous unfiltered content is, specially if we're labeling them as "news". CNN should have staff to confirm each and every one of this iReport items before publishing them on their site (did anyone here see this great movie called "Shattered Glass"? http://www.imdb.com/title...) - Jorge Escobar

Whew! I'm so glad that the mainstream media never, ever gets anything wrong. - Glen Campbell

And thinking more about it -- it *is* a shame, because citizen reporting could be a very important part of supporting democracy and freedom. Some stupid people just don't realize the importance of this. I remember reading about Korea's Citizen Journalism newspaper http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki... and how succesful it was. - Jorge Escobar

Sarah, I think it's a little much to say that citizen journalism has "failed" based on this one case. Yes, the report was untrue, and lots of people (including me) spread the report on Twitter. But at the same time, it was debunked relatively quickly -- and not by a traditional journalist either. I think that’s actually a pretty good example of how social media (I hate the term “citizen journalism”) can work. It’s a process, not a single event. Is it subject to abuse? Yes. Should we all be a bit more careful of what we "report?" Yes. Has it failed? No. - mathew ingram from FriendFeed MT Plugin

I have (not so) interesting *version* that "citizen journalism" was "on duty factor" to explain AAPL stock fluctuations from other factors in convenient way :) oh please, in the age of America with Department of Homeland nobody knows who is "nickname this"... - A.T.

And Jared from Subway is still alive. - Louis Gray

And Facebook bought the LDS Church, or was it the other way around? - Jesse Stay

Louis - you are on a roll tonight!! ha, ha!! Jesse you and Louis bought Facebook?! cool!! - Susan Beebe

Susan, no, I heard Steve Jobs bought Facebook, right before he had a heartattack - Jesse Stay from twhirl

I thought he had an heart attack because he was in the car with 50 cents - Marcello Del Bono

Because he was trying to make a dollar out fifty cents... - Mona Nomura

"Whew! I was concerned when I heard this as I have great respect for Jobs because he is one of the only CEO's in America that earns his pay. He makes $1 a year and the rest is in stock options. He must do his best to improve the company and make the stock increase to increase his salary; what a novel idea!!!" - Jesse W. Jesse, you are quite possibly the furthest from the truth as is realistically possible on this comment. This practice of dollar-a-year salary is not unique to Steve Jobs and he wasn't even the first to do it. It shelters the money from taxes that are charged on salary's over $1M. In place of huge salaries, theses CEOs get bonuses and stock options which directly replace a paid salary. If they make a dollar a year, they dump hundreds of thousands in stocks into the market on a regularly scheduled basis turning them into millions in cash. This article explains well: http://www.slate.com/id... - Matt Bidinger from FriendFeed MT Plugin