In a world where independent voices that question authority are canceled and the media relays to people what they were told to by those in power, there is a need for a new type of journalist–muckrakers who will make public the information that the powerful want to keep hidden, said James O’Keefe, founder of Project Veritas. Exposing this kind of information requires the use of “disguise and undercover techniques” that raise ethical questions, O’Keefe said on EpochTV’s “Crossroads” program. Beat reporters who need to focus on certain issues become wholly dependent upon their access to those in power, and do not want to jeopardize their relationships with those people in power, O’Keefe explained. As a result “they tend to play stenographer precisely when they should exercise independence,” he added. “The only way that I found to not be so conflicted is to use hidden cameras and then use disguise,” the …
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