“the steve jobs faked heart attack story is not a failure of ‘citizen journalism’. it’s a failure of CNN.”
— dsilverman about 13 hours ago

That said, no one ever pioneered jack sitting around doing nothing. Best thing I can think of is… always be prepared… for the ghosts in the machine. CNN could do far better patrolling of iReports, but no doubt they’re trying to do everything on the cheap, and not allocating the warm bodies behind the infrastructure needed to monitor the hallways. Try getting something with a pulse into your iReport to do some housekeeping. Since we can’t delete, thus control, our own conten there, once submitted, the place is looking like a college dorm on a Sunday morning. Very icky for this soccer mom’s sensibilities.

Still, and I’ll say this again… you don’t pioneer jack sitting around doing nothing. At least they’re trying, and they will learn the most from their mistakes. Let’s hope they keep iReport around to make lots of really good one. We watch, we use, we all learn that way.