Category Archives: Citizen Journalism

May 19, 2012

Video: Andrew Breitbart on his Legacy “I want the left to know they screwed with the wrong guy!”

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“And I want the Democratic Party and liberalism; I want my professors at Tulane in the Humanities department, to know: they tried to brainwash me to side with liberal Democrats in order to attack those that disagree.” Andrew Breitbart


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May 2, 2012

The Cost Of Courage Movie Trailer

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Full Disclosure Network® presents this 3 minute trailer of a soon to be completed documentary movie entitled “The Cost of Courage” based on a three-year television interview series covering California Court Corruption and the 18 month long solitary “coercive confinement” of 70 year old former U.S. Prosecutor Richard I. Fine in the County Central Men’s Jail.


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May 1, 2012

Citizens: the new voice in the media

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Citizen journalism is rewriting and recasting the traditional mainstream news narrative. The effectiveness and success of citizen journalists are apparent, as the media now incorporates and responds to their content almost daily.

As news organizations try to adapt to the ever-changing media landscape and one-up competition with creative methods of breaking news, some of their contenders now have nowhere near the resources, training or wherewithal, yet are still having an impact. Where citizen journalists may lack in finances and formal instruction, they’ve made up for in originality and conviction.

Despite their pedestrian status and lack of conventional credentials, the endeavors of citizen journalism shouldn’t be undercut because they’ve influenced meaningful change and gained traction within the traditional media; look at bloggers, WikiLeaks, Occupy Wall Street videos or Andrew Breitbart’s takedown of Anthony Weiner. This new form is groundbreaking because it empowers the average person to potentially dictate or even overturn the news narrative once exclusively directed by traditional media. Where the media may fall short, everyday folks can now whip out a camera, recorder or cellphone and broadcast whatever they want over the Internet, unfiltered by decision-makers who may have otherwise not seen the initial value or even known about an incident.

In their eyes, citizen journalists pick up the slack where traditional media fails. Because the media, based on its own judgment, may have not picked up a story or angle, citizens who feel a story is important enough to make known can now do so. A citizen journalist’s interpretation of the traditional media’s effectiveness and credibility is that it is somewhat imperfect, which it, of course, is. After all, nothing is entirely perfect, and pretending there’s an uncontaminated purity is misinformed.

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April 25, 2012

Stuart Chaifetz, Father, Puts Wire On Son With Autism, Records Verbal Abuse From Teachers (Video)

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To Chaifetz’s shock, Akian, a student with Autism, returned with a tape containing hours of verbal and emotional abuse from his classroom aide and teacher, which the father documented and published in an emotional YouTube video.

When Stuart Chaifetz sent his 10-year-old son to New Jersey’s Horace Mann Elementary School wearing a hidden audio recorder, he couldn’t have predicted what he would uncover.

The move came in reaction to accusations from the school that his son Akian was having “violent outbursts,” including hitting his teacher and teacher’s aide — claims that Chaifetz claims are against his son’s “sweet and non-violent” nature.

Akian, who has Autism, returned with a tape containing hours of apparent verbal and emotional abuse from his classroom aide and teacher — whom Chaifetz identifies as “Jodi” and “Kelly” — a recording which his father later published on YouTube.

The Feb. 17 recording started with Akian’s aide and the teacher, whom Collingswood Patch provides evidence may be Jodi Sgouros and Kelly Altenburg, respectively, based on a previously published online staff directory.

The two engage in inappropriate conversations, like joking about their alcohol abuse and sex lives in front of their students — all of whom have behavioral conditions and, according to Chaifetz, communication difficulties that prevent them from relaying the conversations to their parents.

“You would never get away with talking about your alcohol abuse the night before if this was a mainstream class,” Chaifetz says in the YouTube video. “And that’s the point, isn’t it? They knew none of those boys could go home and tell their parents that the person who ran that class was under the influence of alcohol and was throwing up.”

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Posted in Citizen Journalism, Education, Medical

April 24, 2012

The Future of Breitbart with Joel Pollak (Video)

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Now that Andrew Breitbart is gone, what is the future of Breitbart.com, the new home of all the “Bigs”? Breitbart.com’s editor-in-chief is the latest darling of the Conservative movement, when he totally schooled an anchor at CNN.


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Breitbart’s Last In-Depth Interview: MSNBC Plot to Paint Obama Foes as ‘Bigots’; Sharpton Hired to Help Mount Attack

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Media Matters, Breitbart said, is “a radical left-wing 501c3 that gets millions of dollars from George Soros and other radical left-wing organizations, including the SEIU, the organizations that are the foot soldiers for the Obama administration.“


Before he died, the conservative new-media maven was readying a defense from attacks he expected from MSNBC, Media Matters and the White House.

Audio of interview available here.

During an exclusive recorded interview with The Hollywood Reporter four weeks before his March 1 death, Andrew Breitbart alleged a plot between MSNBC and Media Matters for America — perhaps even in coordination with the White House – to paint detractors of PresidentObama as bigots.

The conservative firebrand suggested the strategy included pressuring advertisers (Rush Limbaugh’s recent trouble keeping sponsors seems to fit the bill) and silencing conservatives (he cited Pat Buchanan, who has since been fired after 10 years as an MSNBC contributor). Essential to the strategy, Breitbart said, was hiring the Rev. Al Sharpton as a full-time host at MSNBC.

Sharpton premiered as host of PoliticsNation With Al Sharpton on MSNBC in August. He was hired, according to Breitbart, because accusations of racism against the Tea Party and other conservatives have more heft coming from him than they do from hosts Rachel Maddow, Ed Schultz and Lawrence O’Donnell.

Breitbart said that having Sharpton, as well as such other prominent, left-wing African-Americans as Cornel West and the Rev. Jesse Jackson, appear only sporadically on cable news shows wasn’t sufficient to smear Obama opponents. Sharpton’s task is to identify the allegedly coded language of the right – which Breitbart called “dog whistles” — that Sharpton can translate into something racially insensitive.

“Every single day, he and his team get to do that, as opposed to dropping in and saying, ‘Hey did you hear that dog whistle?’ ” said Breitbart.

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April 20, 2012

Tucker Carlson wins online auction for dinner with Bill Ayers

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Those still itching to hang out with the Weather Underground clan still have a chance. An opportunity to go to a Chicago Cubs game with Dohrn is still up for auction through Monday.

[Note: This article was originally posted on December 20th, 2011. The IFNM website was attacked by hackers and many articles are now gone from the archives. As a public service, IFNM is now reposting said articles.]

Daily Caller editor-in-chief Tucker Carlson will have a very special dinner date before the end of 2012 — with Bill Ayers. Yes, that Bill Ayers.

Carlson donated $2,500 to the Illinois Humanities Council for the honor of supping on a home-cooked meal at the Illinois home of Ayers and his wife, Bernardine Dohrn — both unrepentant leaders of the terrorist Weather Underground.

“I bought the auction dinner because I support the important work of the Illinois Humanities Council,” Carlson emailed The Chicago Tribune. “Anything I can do to help.”

Conservatives slammed Barack Obama during the 2008 presidential race for his association with Ayers. Arizona Sen. John McCain’s running mate, former Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin, famously knocked Obama on the stump for “palling around with terrorists.” While she didn’t mention Ayers by name, it was widely understood that is who she was referring to.

Carlson’s winning dinner bid entitles him to bring up to six people. The dinner must be arranged at a mutually agreed-upon date before October 2012.

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Posted in Citizen Journalism, Cultural Marxism, Democrats/Progressives, Radicals, Sarah Palin

April 18, 2012

Video: Why Do Liberals Hate Andrew Breitbart?

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EPISODE of PolitiChicks, honoring Andrew Breitbart with guest Andrew Marcus, who directed the upcoming film Hating Breitbart. Marcus followed Breitbart for years filming hundreds of hours of footage; this is one of my favorite PolitiChicks episodes, dedicated to one of our greatest Conservative warriors.


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April 14, 2012

Obama: Communist-Recognized Congressman ‘Shares Our Values’

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Congressman Davis, a member of the House Committee on Homeland Security, was filmed receiving his award and exiting the Communist Party U.S.A. headquarters in Chicago on March 4, 2012. When questioned about his relationship with the Communist Party, Davis abruptly fled the scene, refusing to answer any further questions.

“He is one on the greatest congressmen in the country,” said President Obama. The reason, Obama told a Teamsters union rally in 2004, “is because he shares our values.”

At that time—just eight years ago—Congressman Danny Davis was continuing his efforts to help move then-State Senator Obama up the Chicago political food chain. And not that long ago—in fact, just two weeks—that Congressman Davis was honored by People’s World, a news website, at the Communist Party U.S.A.’s headquarters in Chicago for a lifetime of “inspiring leadership.”

Upon receiving the People’s World “Chris Hani & Rudy Lozano Social Justice Award,” Davis reflected, “Rudy Lozano and I worked closely together to try and build and a relationship between Latino and African-American activists and union types… we called ourselves ‘Progressives.’”

Congressman Davis, a member of the House Committee on Homeland Security, was filmed receiving his award and exiting the Communist Party U.S.A. headquarters in Chicago on March 4, 2012. When questioned about his relationship with the Communist Party, Davis abruptly fled the scene, refusing to answer any further questions apart from the following exchange:

Cong. Davis: “I thought you’re just a citizen? Why are you worried about the Communist Party?”

Citizen Journalist: “I shouldn’t be worried about the Communist Party?”

Cong. Davis: “No.”

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April 12, 2012

Breitbart’s Last Laugh

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Our party arrived at our economy hotel, which sat next to a highway in the ghetto. It smelled of failure and water damage. Breitbart showed up late, letting me know he was on the grounds by sending a text which read: “We have to score some heroin before we head out….Wait, I think there’s someone outside my hotel room who can help.”

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I tried to calm Breitbart down several times, to no avail. A few years back, he told me the doctor said that he needed to decelerate his stress levels. Consequently, he wanted me to teach him how to fly fish. Then he thought better of it. The problem, he admitted, was, “Every time I see a tree, I just want to kick its ass.”

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Our friend, Daily Caller editor Tucker Carlson, had won the Ayers dinner at an Illinois Humanities Council auction, and had brought us along. Tucker and I were a little worried that we had in our possession a human grenade in Breitbart, though if we were being honest with ourselves, that’s precisely why we brought him. With Andrew, every day was anything-can-happen day.

As it happened, Breitbart was on his best behavior. “I’m here to learn,” Andrew said facetiously. It was part of the pleasure of keeping company with him. He wasn’t just a friend, he was a co-conspirator. Once we arrived at the apartment, much to Andrew’s and Ayers’s chagrin, they got along famously. Just two guys having dinner, finding commonality, even if Andrew regarded it his hidebound duty to passive-aggressively heckle Ayers as he served us plates of hoisin ribs and farmhouse cheeses. (“This is the bomb, Bill,” Breitbart said to the former explosives-rigger.)

When Ayers asked me what I was reading right now, I told him “Moby Dick,” which actually lived up to its billing. Ayers agreed, though added, as any good academic would, “You’ve picked up the gay subtext?” Breitbart nearly choked on his tofu and quinoa. “You mean in Moby Dick?” Andrew asked. “Or at this dinner?”

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