What is the effect of citizen journalism on media?

Citizen journalism has had a great level of impact on the mainstream media. With websites such as Facebook, Twitter, and various other private news blogs going viral on the internet, the traditional media outlets are finding it difficult to stay in the game with their biased reporting.

This way, citizen journalism effects the mainstream media, and forces it to portray the right level of information without adopting a bias, just as what the people are reporting on the social blogging websites. It has had such an impact, that many people now resort to citizen journalism for getting information rather than on the news outlets.