You’ve probably heard of the Wiki-torial saga and LA Times? The world is barely getting to know the value of a ‘wiki,’ when one experiment in the mainstream media gets all the attention it doesn’t need.

This is about the LA Times allowing readers to write their own editorial. It began last Friday. According to the paper:

Nearly 1,000 users registered to participate in the rewriting of Friday’s lead editorial. Called "War and Consequences," the piece argued for the U.S. to set goals for training Iraqis to replace U.S. troops in Iraq and for the firing of Defense Secretary Donald H. Rumsfeld if those goals were not met.

Pornographic images began to appear on the wiki by Saturday, and the ‘experimental wikitorial’ was taken down –temporarily, it seems.

Open source journalism, is an idea whose time has come. But has it? Or has it come too fast? See Jeff Jarvis’s –brillliant, as usual– observations here.

“You don’t build a town without cops. You don’t build a community site — a town online — without a clean-up crew, either.”