Part 2-If you're gonna watch or listen, RECORD IT

[liveoaktx]

Talking particularly about the floor speeches on Cspan. Our congresspersons talk and, unless it's a committee meeting, it is never heard again. I made a thread about this about a week ago with how you can specifically do this, either on an Audio or Video level.

Recap:
AUDIO-If you are listening over the internet, you can get a free or inexpensive PODCASTING type tool to create an MP3. Then, you can watch or listen to the Cspan stream over the internet and save it as audio, upload it to a server and then share the URL. Mp3's don't take up a lot of space. Some software programs will also let you edit the audio to clip out just what you want.Example: Kennedy's Floor speech-someone knew it was coming-anyone that knows it can immediately start recording, at the least, the audio.

VIDEO- If you are watching over the internet, you can get a capture program like RMRecorder or WMRecorder (there are probably free ones, too) to save the video to disk. Then, you can edit it, free, with Windows Movie Maker and save it to a server and share it. I'm certain you can do the same type of thing with a MAC but I'm not a MaC user. If you have a TIVO/PVR,a TV Capture card, or a DVD Recorder, you can clip stuff from your television.

Jon Stewart clips pieces and the principle is fair use.

Finally, on local and state video/audio. Are you going to a local council meeting? Watching state government proceedings? Take your tape recorder or your video camera and record it. In Texas, for example, there is the open meetings act which includes *anyone* being able to tape or record the proceedings. Are you going to a protest and the corporate media isn't covering it? Become the media and designate one in your party to be the recorder and then share it.

Seems to me that part of the power of Corporate Media is not only what they do or don't cover, but also how they edit what they do get. If you are able to see/hear the primary source.... and can capture it, you are leagues ahead of corporate media.