CBS - CITIZEN JOURNALISM HITS A BUMP

Caption: *file photos*. * JACKSON'S WARDROBE MALFUNCTION BATTLE BACK ON. JANET JACKSON's infamous wardrobe malfunction at the 2004 Super Bowl is set to. be reviewed again

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CBS News's effort to encourage ordinary citizens to upload newsworthy photos and videos using the iPhone application Eyemobile, ran into a snag Wednesday after the COO of BrandContent, a Boston-based advertising consulting firm, discovered soft porn images on the site. Karl Johnson said that after he uploaded the app, he not only saw the images, including a video of three women engaged in sex acts, but advertising on the clips placed by AdMob. ""This seems to be a classic case of nobody paying attention to whether any of the materials are newsworthy or not," Johnson told Advertising Age. Jason Spero, head of marketing at AdMob, said that after CBS was alerted, it "immediately removed the content and banned the user that uploaded it from any future use of the application."

02/10/2008