Mark Tapscott: The growing role of the citizen journalist

Mark Tapscott

Mark Tapscott has a good piece at Townhall.com which points out the growing importance of the citizen journalist. He asks, "Are you ready for citizen journalism to stop Big Government?"

...That makes citizen journalism one of our most powerful weapons ever against Big Government. Think about the politicians and bureaucrats who will no longer be able to operate out of the public eye. It won’t be long before those dreary congressional hearings, school board meetings and state regulatory commission votes that mostly go ignored now will be recorded and posted on the Internet, easily accessible to everybody. Big Government advocates won’t like this new world.

The Blogosphere and other Internet-based New Media have ended the mainstream media’s monopoly on reporting the news. Broadcast news networks and daily newspapers are rapidly losing their audiences and advertisers. Sooner or later, they will be replaced by a new breed of citizen journalism that gives us the news we want, not just the “news” favored by the Dan Rathers of old.

He goes on to suggest how citizens can even become more effective in exposing bureaucratic abuses and corruption. Check it out. It's a brave new world.