Pork Busters can Earn a Free Video Camera

From Danny Glover, at Eyeblast.tv:

“Porkbusters On Patrol” combines the concept of AFP’s earmarks tour with the vision that Instapundit Glenn Reynolds shared in his book “An Army Of Davids.” The goal is to equip an army of citizen reporters with pocket camcorders to produce an ongoing series of on-site video stories about Congress’ pork-barreling ways.

I’ll coordinate the effort at Eyeblast, a video-sharing network created by the Media Research Center, by recruiting stringers, distributing free cameras and paying travel expenses of reporters on assignment in their regions. The Porkbusters coalition will identify pork projects that lend themselves to video reports, and people who want to produce reports are welcome to suggest their own.The videos will be published at Eyeblast.tv, where bloggers and others will be able to grab the code to embed the stories on their sites. The initial deadline for video submissions is Aug. 31, with the launch of the series planned for Monday, Sept. 8. We’ll continue to promote videos as they are submitted and as often as warranted.The best videos in the first round will be showcased at Americans for Prosperity’s “Defending The American Dream Summit” in Washington this October, and video submissions by college students could become eligible as entries in a future competition.If you already have a videocamera and know of pork sites in your area that need some video sunlight cast on them, send your ideas to me. Stories must be assigned in advance to receive reimbursement for travel expenses. Eyeblast also will pay for assigned video reports from contributors who have their own equipment.

If you don’t have a camera but want to be a Porkbuster on Patrol, go here for my e-mail address and let me know you’re interested. You can pitch specific story ideas, or we’ll contact you if we identify pork in your region that we want covered…”