“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

May 2, 2012
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.
Posted in Citizen Journalism, Law & Courts
May 1, 2012
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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Posted in Citizen Journalism, Journalism, New Media
April 25, 2012
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.
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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 20, 2012
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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April 14, 2012
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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