James O’Keefe Says New Media Group Will ‘Decentralize Journalism’ After Project Veritas Split | Eastern NC Now

    Publisher's Note: This post appears here courtesy of the The Daily Wire. The author of this post is Brandon Drey.

    Former Project Veritas CEO James O'Keefe sat down with Ben Shapiro on this week's episode of "The Sunday Special," discussing how he plans on outsourcing undercover operatives equipped with hidden cameras in order to decentralize journalism.

    "What I'm trying to do is get information into the hands of the citizens so that they make the best decisions to elect the right representatives," O'Keefe said. "I actually believe that if people had any idea what was actually going on - in the three letter agencies and the schools - then they would be rightfully outraged."

    O'Keefe announced his resignation from Project Veritas last month after a conflict with the board of directors from the investigative journalism group he founded over ten years ago. Weeks after the company ousted the guerrilla journalist, he launched O'Keefe Media Group, a new business venture promising to be surrounded by "the most elite journalists in the world."

    His ouster from the company came after the group broke a story in which Pfizer's Director of Research and Development admitted the pharmaceutical company was apparently conducting "directed evolution" research on SARS-CoV-2.

    Project Veritas' board of directors said they wanted to fix things with O'Keefe, but he would not have contact with them after an incident unfolded in February. The board of directors alleged that O'Keefe misspent large sums of donor money and that he broke the organization's bylaws with his actions.

    "I never really figured out what exactly happened, but it's important for me to continue my mission," he said.

    That mission with the new media group, O'Keefe said, involves "getting little cameras into the hands of 1000s of people and helping everyone be a journalist."

    "The mission is to teach people about journalism ethics ... technology ... and recording laws in various states - I intend to open-source all of that on the website," he said, which has not yet become available to the public.

    Under O'Keefe's leadership, Project Veritas broke several major stories through sting operations and whistleblowers - a style of journalism that critics have called deceptive.

    O'Keefe, on the other hand, decried much of the criticism, which supporters of the abrasive form of journalism say is only viewed as controversial when it doesn't support left-wing purposes.

    "It's not about the methods," he said. "It's about whose ox you're perceived to be goring - it's all about politics, and it's all about power."

    "I want to teach people how to do it themselves so that I don't have to curate it," he said at the time of the O'Keefe Media Group announcement. "And if that vision comes to life, I think that could change the world."

    Ryan Saveedra contributed to this report.

poll#125

Since only about 20% of the News Media has any shred of Journalistic Integrity remaining: How does our Constitutional Republic continue without a "Free Press"?

  Demand real information, using real sources, backed up by facts.

  Promote real journalist entities only, and admonish those that prostitute their profession.

  We Democratic Socialists are doing just fine, thank-you, by promoting lies while having very little real knowledge about so much.

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poll#169

Considering how abjectly corrupt and civilly abusive the Left has become regarding the corrosive effect of their elected leaders; their entrenched and ruling bureaucracy; employing their failed Education Industry as Indoctrinators; their collusive private sector operators, such as the terminally discredited Legacy Media and Big Tech censorship of Free Speech: What will be the best course forward for hardworking Middle Americans, including the Patriot Class?

  Withdraw from society, go underground and plan for a resurgence when it is feasible to do so.

  Work within the confines of better policy by the People's government, once good sense and sanity is restored in the electorate at large, to achieve such.

  Are you a crazy, nut-job Insurrectionist? Everything is perfect within our plan to achieve our intended goals for the Socialist Left.

  Secession to form a true Constitutional Republic.

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