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e traced to Thomas Paine and the pamphleteers of the 18th century, and to the antiwar,<br />
counterculture alternative press that prospered in the 1960s.<br />
A citizen journalist, Stephens notes, is not the same as a political blogger. The former can, and<br />
sometimes does, original reporting; the latter, for the most part, is a political junkie armed with opinions<br />
and has no bones about sharing them. But these definitions don't always fit.<br />
"There really is no simple definition for what a citizen journalist is, just lots and lots of examples," says<br />
Dan Gillmor, former technology columnist for the San Jose Mercury News and author of "We the Media:<br />
Grassroots Journalism by the People, for the People."<br />
"It ranges from people who do journalism all the time to people who do what you might call a random<br />
act of journalism to people who don't consider themselves journalists but are in fact practicing<br />
journalism.<br />
"The publishing tools -- digital cameras, blogging software -- are at the people's disposal," Gillmor<br />
continues. "And for a lot of them, the underlying motivation is frustration with the traditional media."<br />
Take Anderson.<br />
Now off the D train, Ms. CJ continues with her rant. Her voice, low and pointed, grows more incredulous<br />
as she steps out of the subway and onto the streets of Brooklyn. She's railing against illegal immigration<br />
-- "What part of illegal," she snaps, "don't you get?" -- and wonders where the MSMers are in covering<br />
this "big, big, big" story.<br />
After the Democratic debate in Philadelphia earlier this month, when Sen. Hillary Clinton was criticized<br />
for her response to a question about granting driver's licenses to illegal immigrants, Anderson wrote on<br />
her blog: "If [Clinton] is the nominee, Republicans will go buck-wild with attack ads showing she was for<br />
licenses for illegals before she was against it."<br />
Tall and striking, Anderson was raised in the poor, rough streets of Brooklyn's Bedford-Stuyvesant<br />
neighborhood and first set foot on an airplane on her way to California to attend Stanford Law School.<br />
She looks like a cross between Meryl Streep, Chita Rivera and Pam Grier, with physical features as hard<br />
as to pin down as her politics. She grew up a Democrat, switched to the Republican Party in the Reagan<br />
years and bolted out of the GOP in 2000, following the election debacle that angered her to her core.<br />
She's been an independent ever since and supports none of the candidates right now.<br />
Journalism, as political MSMers in Washington practice it, is too inside-the-Beltway, too beholden to<br />
sources, Ms. CJ says, all about the horse race, the money haul, the strategists, the pollsters, all about<br />
ensuring that official Washington and its political class stay employed.<br />
"And not enough about the issues," Anderson points out, "never enough about the issues." She blogs<br />
about illegal immigration constantly and wrote extensively about the Jena Six case well before the MSM<br />
started covering the racial conflicts seething in that small Louisiana town. She credits black bloggers,<br />
alongside black radio, with closely following that story.