I think every DUer needs to read this so I am posting it here.

[Mountainman]

I got the link from another DUer's post but I believe that this is the most important idea we have to grapple with.

It makes no difference what we do or what our leaders have to say if it doesn't get through to average ms. and mr. American.

And all we have accomplished can be negated instantly by one very well timed campaign phrase like "the Godless left" repeated over and over without anyone countering it in the same media outlet.

In my area, Bakersfield, CA you will never hear our point of view on the radio during drive time but every English speaking radio station has the rightwing talking points on over and over again.

Folks we have to take back the media or everything else we do is just like pissing in the wind.

consortiumnews.com

The Left's Media Miscalculation

By Robert Parry
April 29, 2005

To understand how the United States got into today’s political predicament – where even fundamental principles like the separation of church and state are under attack – one has to look back at strategic choices made by the Right and the Left three decades ago.

In the mid-1970s, after the U.S. defeat in Vietnam and President Richard Nixon’s resignation over the Watergate scandal, American progressives held the upper-hand on media. Not only had the mainstream press exposed Nixon’s dirty tricks and published the Pentagon Papers secrets of the Vietnam War, but a vibrant leftist “underground” press informed and inspired a new generation of citizens.

http://www.consortiumnews.com/Print/2005/042805.html

[MuseRider]

1. It is the same

thing here, our entire state gets only that point of view. The media and the voting machines, nothing else will help us if we don't take care of those two things.

[Hosnon]

2. What does the picture of the horn mean?

[MuseRider]

3. Nothing really,

it is a clarinet and I am a clarinetist. I just like it a lot.

[AtTheEndOfTheDay]

6. A neat symbol

it does appear like some type of script.

[mohinoaklawnillinois]

4. Mountainman, thanks for posting this.

It explained a lot to me and I ordered both of Robert Parry's books. Can't wait to start reading them.

:thumbsup: :thumbsup: :thumbsup:

[KoKo]

5. An interesting read. We need a big donor or the "Fairness Doctrine"

reinstated. The "Fairness Doctrine" would bring in some money by forcing the Media to give equal time...thereby opening doors for Dem or Left Press.

But, there's no doubt that the Left Press needs an infusion of money and one wonders why George Soros who apparently has been spreading some of his wealth around wouldn't be a donor to this. I was glad to see he started to buy shares of CNN/TIME WARNER and hope he increases his interest and does something with the programming. But, we can't count on that and some here question his motives.

Until the "Fairness Doctrine" is reinstated we are going to have to support the internet sites like the "Media Consortium" who has been begging for funds for months now, in addition to giving to DU.

[tom_paine]

7. kick

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