Citizen Journalism -- Why We Are Needed

Whenever I hear this sort of nonsense from young would-be journalists, or even the grizzled veterans that today dominate newsrooms around the country, my response is, "Go join the Peace Corps, the AmeriCorps, or the US Military.

The job of the journalist is to report. PERIOD!

Once upon a time, journalism schools taught, WHO, WHAT, WHERE, WHEN, WHY and HOW. It was not the business of the journalist to cheerlead for a cause, a political philosophy, or a candidate. This is no longer true today. The end of objective journalism can arguably be traced back to Watergate. With that scandal, the left in this country discovered that they had the power to bring down a US President. This was power.

As Lord Acton once noted: "Power tends to corrupt, and absolute power corrupts absolutely." Journalists have learned, that the power of the press is absolute, and have used that absolute power to cheerlead for their most cherished causes. Since surveys have demonstrated that 87% of today's journalists are liberals, their cause has, more often than not, been the onward path toward Socialism.

Since most of today's journalists come from elite Universities composed of faculty that is 87% liberal, it is hardly surprising that the product of those institutions, the journalists of today, are likewise heavily leftward leaning.

This monolithic paradigm of thought plays itself out each day though newspapers, magazines, television and government-subsidized radio (NPR). Only Conservative talk radio and now the internet provide a balance of sorts, to the relentless propaganda machine with which the left bombards the public on a daily basis.

Citizen Journalism is today's answer to that propaganda machine. Armed with nothing more than a computer, a video camera or even nothing more than a camera-phone, Conservatives, no longer content to suffer the slanting of the news in silence, are rising up and providing their own content.

This is what we are trying to do here.