WHAT IS "CITIZEN JOURNALISM"?

If you haven't been keeping up-to-date with the "blogging" breakthrough in the new media, here's a quick lesson. "Blogs"--or "weB LOGS"--started out several years ago as a way of posting personal commentary, news analysis and individual rants on the World Wide Web. In large part, the "blogs" have become more prominent in the last year or so due to their incursion into the dominant Mainstream Media of corporate newspapers and television. Many people take offense at the lack of coverage by the Mainstream Media on certain issues facing the nation. Others are upset by the bias of the newscasters and reporters. Many blogs were started as a method of addressing these concerns. Some of the most famous blogs include http://www.instapundit.com/ and http://www.powerlineblog.com/. You may not have known it, but Powerline is the blog that brought down Dan Rather's shabby "journalism" and his faulty reporting on the Texas National Guard Memos. Powerline connected with thousands of experts, lawyers and computer specialists who were able to debunk the memos as forgeries. If you want to know what is happening with the suicide bombing attack in Oklahoma, you'll need to visit http://michellemalkin.com/ because no one else is talking about it.

Citizens are taking to the available media and scooping the press time and again. Have you heard about the Air America Radio scandal? Probably not, because the Maistream Media is ignoring it. But click on this link to http://radioequalizer.blogspot.com/ where Brian Maloney is all over it! In the same way, http://www.toledowatchdog.blogspot.com is taking on the mighty, the powerful and the arrogant. Citizen Journalism is the new hope of democracy. The secrets that have hidden behind the wall of corporate and government power are being uncovered. And in the true spirit of the American Revolution we remind our readers that "ETERNAL VIGILANCE IS THE PRICE OF LIBERTY!"