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RSDavis
04-22-2010, 07:47 AM
The Rise of Citizen Journalism (Or NAZIs Show Up in the Strangest Places)
by RS Davis
The Freedom Files (http://freedomphiles.blogspot.com/2010/04/rise-of-citizen-journalism-or-nazis.html)

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Hello Freedomphiles! On tax day, I published a piece (http://freedomphiles.blogspot.com/2010/04/on-tax-day-mystery-and-intrigue-and.html) about the Tea Party, and the propaganda war in which they were engaged with their detractors. There was a website called Crash the Tea Party! that was encouraging people to infiltrate the Tea Party protests with racist signs and NAZI gear to try and make the general public think that's what the protests were about.

It seemed that they were counting on Poe's Law (http://rationalwiki.com/wiki/Poe%27s_Law#Real-life_examples) to confuse the unwashed masses into thinking if they can be radical about government spending, they could be radical about anything. They wanted to send an army of Poe's into the rallies to obfuscate the truth.

Now, I actually thought this might be effective. It was my opinion that without a person to rally behind, the public and the media would simply believe that any asshole with a sign represented the beliefs and values of the average Tea Party protester. When it was primarily a Paulian movement (It's still about half Paulite), if someone said something outrageous, all they had to do was point to Paul - "Have you ever heard him say something like that?" The Tea Party doesn't really have that ability, and I thought it might be their undoing.

But neither I nor Crash the Tea Party! counted on the power of the citizen journalist. If there is one thing the whole Dubya Air National Guard controversy taught me, it is that the mainstream media is bloated and lazy, and that it was going to be bloggers and activists that carried the torch of truth into the 21st Century....
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