Reply #21: I believe empowering the American People

[Uncle Joe]

to voice their opinions and seek their information over the heads of the corporate media to be a historical gift, of sorts anyway. He could just as easily, never have taken up that cause, and the only people with access to the Internet, (if you want to call it that) and virtually unlimited information would be some people at the Defense Dept. and some universities.

I'm not trying to imply we don't have an unalienable right to free speech but of what practical use is that if no one hears you? Or put another way, if a tree falls in the forest and no one is there to hear it, does it make a sound?

The corporate media heads grew to hate him as the Internet grew in power and influence thus threatening their monopoly on information, information = power, money and influence. One major reason as to why it's so expensive to run for President, are television ads. I believe this largely motivated the corporate media to give him the Prometheus treatment only instead of eating his liver, they took bites from his integrity and credibility by slandering and trashing him for the better part of two years prior to the selection of 2000.

If you think I'm making up the corporate media's astonishing one sided treatment of him while they enabled Bush to power, check out this excellent piece in Vanity Fair. I have yet to hear any major corporate news media reply to this column.

http://www.vanityfair.com/politics/features/2007/10/gore200710

Going After Gore

Al Gore couldn't believe his eyes: as the 2000 election heated up, The New York Times, The Washington Post, and other top news outlets kept going after him, with misquotes ("I invented the Internet"), distortions (that he lied about being the inspiration for Love Story), and strangely off-the-mark needling, while pundits such as Maureen Dowd appeared to be charmed by his rival, George W. Bush. For the first time, Gore and his family talk about the effect of the press attacks on his campaign—and about his future plans—to the author, who finds that many in the media are re-assessing their 2000 coverage.

by Evgenia Peretz October 2007