Do you know Mayhill Fowler? Last week you probably didn't, but this week there is a much better chance the name may ring a bell.

Fowler is a contributor to Off the Bus, a citizen journalism section of The Huffington Post, who was able to get Bill Clinton to comment on a recent Vanity Fair article on his personal life, using the words "sleezy," "slimey," and "scumbag" to describe the writer.

Instantly, the comments were uploaded to the internet via Fowler's digital recorder and spread like wildfire.

Fowler, however, did not identify her affiliation to Clinton when she asked for comment.

Jay Rosen, NYU professor, media critic and supporter of the Huffington Post Off the Bus citizen journalism project said she should have. "In the interest of full disclosure, it would have been better if she said, 'Mr. President, I'm a blogger from Off the Bus and I have a question." He added, "I also understand the situation she's in, he's on a rope line, and it's crowded and there are people shouting at him."

Writes the New York Times' Jacques Steinberg:

The incident, widely mined on the cable news channels as fresh evidence of Mr. Clinton's volcanic temper in the waning hours of his wife's presidential campaign, has prompted an entirely different discussion - this one among political reporters, journalism teachers, public relations strategists and bloggers themselves - about the dos and don'ts of ethical reporting in the YouTube age.

Over at Huffington Post, former Newsweek Senior Bill Barol wrote "You can call Fowler's brush with Clinton anything you like. Call it 'Participatory citizenship' or 'On-scene audio-visual blogging.' You can call it 'Midge,' for all I care. But 'journalism' it ain't."

Surely, this debate won't find a resolution in the fall out from just one incident. However, from a PR perspective alone, the implications here are massive. Everything is on the record. Whether you like it or not, anyone can break news just as fast, if not faster than a "mainstream" media outlet.

And, once the words/images/video are out - there is little you can do to stop it. You can only join the conversation.

Read FishbowlNY's take here.