by Gary C. Gibson

Created on: November 13, 2009   Last Updated: November 17, 2009

Citizen journalists have a better chance of writing for the interests of U.S. citizens than 'professional' journalists that write generally for their employer trans-national corporate interests. I put the word 'professional' in quotes because it simply means to profess, and formerly referred to the 'professions' such as were considered doctors, lawyers, teachers and such but today refers also to career burger flippers at McDonald's. Pro journalists may lack anything beside personal egoist ethics. They may be pimps looking for a story to print for money without regard for it's effect upon the individual or the nation. They may follow corporate global profit goals toward political corporatism and jettison the United States as anything besides being a vassal of corporatist exploitation.

Are citizen blogger-journalists more trust-worthy to whom? Networks don't 'trust' non-corporate data without verification. Corporate media want material that will build up their profits, Citizen journalists may be working to build a better society. if you are a globalist investor you probably would trust the journalistic pros on the corporate payroll because that's where your own money is bet. The point for such is to crush the little guys out of existence-keep them broke and marginalized.

In some respects citizen-journalists have different interests than journalistic pros and a more varied range of subject materials. Yet if one wants to think of oneself as a journalist, who is a citizen rather than a trans-nationalist I am all for that. It is more likely that citizens should have an apposite rather than an opposite interest poltically.

Since the end of the cold war professional journalists have gone entirely over to the evil empire and tirelessly work in opposition to U.S. national interests. They work against local democratic independence and lead in the social training of national constituencies for a kind of apathetic-passive observer relationship to politics. Politics is viewed as entertainment through corporate journalist filters. C.N.N. finally ditched Lou Dobbs for being opposed to illegal alien invasion of the United States over the Mexican border. Trans-national corpoartists prefer cheap labor in the United States.

Anyone with more than five hundred competetive posts at helium with stars may be a member of the national press club for fifty dollars each month. Bloggers may not earn that much so they opt out. They must focus on quality writing and buy fuel or food-maybe

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