Uncovered: The Power of the Citizen Journalist – The American Spectator | USA News and Politics

Uncovered: The Power of the Citizen Journalist – The American Spectator | USA News and Politics

A welcomed new development has occurred in the field of journalism and in society in general: the rise of the citizen journalist. These are ordinary citizens (all young people) who, using the simple technology at hand, do what journalists — whether conservative or liberal or libertarian — should be doing, which is going out on the street and, either uncovering crime and malignant bureaucracies, or going to protests and persistently asking hard q…

James O’Keefe, Nick Shirley and The Rise of the Citizen Journalists

By Armando Simón A welcomed new development has occurred in the field of journalism and in society in general: the rise of the citizen journalist. These are ordinary citizens (all young people) who, using the simple technology at hand, do what journalists—whether conservative or liberal or libertarian—should be doing, which is going out on the street and, either uncovering crime and malignant bureaucracies, or going to protests and persistently…