Media

Yeah, the next piece of the puzzle has been locked into place. Expect something awful to happen between now and November 2008, as this criminal syndicate is not going to go quietly. The media? Of course it will be as big a surprise to them as it will be to the rest of the sleeping populace. My local newspaper editors, like most who subscribe to the various wire services, firmly believe all the lies it runs every day.

by Bill Cain (2 articles, 0 quicklinks, 0 diaries, 329 comments) on Monday, June 4, 2007 at 5:19:09 PM
 

You're Darn Tootin

About the only hope we have left is to break into the mainstream media - to force them to cover the issues - it's the only way we can influence the Elite Republicrat traitors that control congress. This MUST become priority number one. Sigh**Get it through your heads people!!!!

Please

by RCG (3 articles, 0 quicklinks, 3 diaries, 348 comments) on Monday, June 4, 2007 at 10:27:17 PM
 

There May Be Alternatives

billcain, rcg, you seem frustrated, disenfranchised, as if you think that we, the people, are not really the basis of our representative government. You seem to be saying that, because of those who are in the "the exclusive club" from which candidates for and members of our government are chosen, your vote doesn't count. You seem to be saying that the mainstream media perpetuates a blue/red myth in which most Americans believe, yet creates a cavernous separation between the candidates/members of government and those very same Americans who believe in the myth. Welcome to the club!

rcg, you seem to be suggesting more than protests or writing to those in the "exclusive club" (otherwise pawned off as "our congressional representatives") don't always work (don't ever work?). May I suggest a book entitled "How Nonviolence Protects The State" by Peter Gelderloos.

Now, I'm not admitting to agreeing with Gelderloos and I'm not admitting to disagreeing with Gelderloos. All I'm saying is that protests and sit-ins wouldn't have gotten us very far with our troubled late 18th century relationship with Great Britain. I'm just sayin', ya know?

Michael Bonanno

by Michael Bonanno (92 articles, 19 quicklinks, 24 diaries, 125 comments) on Monday, June 4, 2007 at 11:00:50 PM
 

Alternatives

Mr. Bonanno,

 They have control of the mass media. How do you educate the masses  when most people refuse to see anything beyond the lies they are being told by the mass media? There needs to be  breakthrough on a live TV program where something is said by someone in a position of influence, which can not by ignored or go unreported. It then needs to start a firestorm in the mass media supported by other courageous people.

by Bill Cain (2 articles, 0 quicklinks, 0 diaries, 329 comments) on Tuesday, June 5, 2007 at 11:00:23 AM
 

A Walter Cronkite Moment

billcain, you're right.

Around the time of The Tet Offensive, during one of his nightly newscasts, Walter Cronkite removed his glasses, looked into the camera and, and I paraphrase, said, "Enough is enough!"

We need such a Walter Cronkite moment. The problem is that we don't have any mainstream media newscasters who command such general respect by everyone, right, left or center, as did Walter Cronkite in the 1960s.

We don't need Keith Olberman or Bill Moyers to have a Walter Cronkite moment. They're looked at as bias "liberal" newscasters, two of the few who lean toward the Progressive school of thinking, and they've already told Bush "Enough is enough!"

What do we really need? We need the impossible. We need Limbaugh or O'Reilly or Hannity to have a nightmare exposing what they, by they're interest only in ratings and money, are doing to The FUSA and to Americans.

I submit that, no matter how stupid or insensitive these blow hards seem to be, we have no idea what's in their heads. They know if they continue to sprout the hate and divisiveness that they sprout, they will continue to get the "American Idol", "Survivor" crowd, the crowd which thrives on name calling and John Wayne jingoism, and they'll continue to be successful, albeit possibly disingenuous.

If one or more of these cage rattlers thinks for one moment, gains a conscience and, on live TV, has a Walter Cronkite moment, it will be reported in the mainstream media and that person will become a true American hero. I'm not holding my breath, though.

The other fix is to break into a newsroom and occupy it, broadcasting the truth live day after day until those who don't know learn.

One of the tactics during the Vietnam War was for members of the antiwar movement to break in and physically occupy the offices of university presidents and deans.

As long as there's no draft, there will never be the same kind of sense of urgency that initiated that kind of action.

Michael Bonanno

by Michael Bonanno (92 articles, 19 quicklinks, 24 diaries, 125 comments) on Tuesday, June 5, 2007 at 11:48:37 AM