Media Diversity: Just as Important as Election Reform

[steve2470]

Election reform is our #1 priority, or close to it. We desparately need more diversity in the TV media. The truth and our side are not getting out. Until the truth gets out to the masses, election reform will not happen, mark my words. Does anyone have rich investor friends or friends in the media to get this project rolling ? If I had an extra $200 million lying around, I'd gladly donate it. But, alas, I'm just one of the working stiffs. Can we get this going, folks ? If one of you DU'ers can prove to me that media diversity is not that important, then I will shut up about this. I don't know what else I can do about this.

[LearnedHand]

1. Won't get #1 without media diversity

Period.

My theory: RW ownership of all the media, and RW clampdown on skepticism, is forcing independent voices into other arenas (blogging, for example). These folks are the 21st century equivalent of the pseudonomynous pamphleteers of the American Revolution.

Independent voices MUST be heard.

[steve2470]

2. Amen brother ! nt

[katinmn]

3. I agree with you. We must have a decentralized media

We are already seeing the effects of consolidation: no one knows what's going on except those of us who gravitated to the Internet.

Election fraud has everyone's attention now because of the immediacy of the meeting on Jan 6.

No matter what, we must quadruple efforts to launch advertiser boycotts, among other steps. Maybe we'll have to form a co-op to launch a new mass media outlet.

[unpossibles]

5. what's even scarier

is that I have several politically savvy and internet savvy friends who, when I mentioned election fraud, started talking about 2000. I said, "no, this one" and they asked what I meant. So I told them. They had not heard any of it anywhere, and I am not sure they believed.

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[steve2470]

6. diversity meaning that the newspeople actually tell the truth

about what is going in America and with their government. CNN, etc. "hide" most of the truth.

[katinmn]

13. Referring to the consolidation of the media

If we have less consolidation, diversity in journalists will come. Right now the TV talking heads are , with a few exceptions, readers of the news. Said news is prepared by corporate spinners.

There are a few exceptions.

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[Misskittycat]

7. We need to establish safe places for honest journalists to go.

Right now, most so-called journalists are completely under the thumb of the right-wing media ownership cabal. They depend on this cabal for their high-paying jobs and visibility.

But we need to establish "safe" venues for good journalists so they will be rewarded for telling the truth and covering the tough stories. Except for Air America and the Internet, there is no place for them to go.

[keith the dem]

8. There can be no election reform

until there is a more honest diverse media.

[GreenPartyVoter]

9. I was really hoping Kerry would bring back the Fairness Doctrine

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Election reform can save this country!
http://timeforachange.bluelemur.com/electionreform.htm

[steve2470]

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[steve2470]

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[RafterMan]

19. Question for you

What good does it do someone named GreenPartyVoter to bring back something as inherently binary as the Fairness Doctrine?

I mean that as a serious question.

[proud patriot]

12. I agree

:thumbsup:

[steve2470]

14. THIS completely validates my position....

Media Lockdown
I received this from a credible source today:
This is from John Schmidhauser former Congressman (D. IA). Who now lives in Carpinteria CA.
On Friday I received a phone call from a good friend who works at CBS - I've known her for years and she is a producer for some of the news programs, one well known one in particular.
She tipped me off that the news media is in a "lock-down" and that there is to be no TV coverage of the real problems with voting on Nov. 2nd.
She said similar "lock-down orders" had come down last year after the invasion of Iraq, but this is far worse - far scarier.
She said the majority of their journalists at CBS and elsewhere in NYC are pretty horrified - every one is worried about their jobs and retribution Dan Rather style or worse.
My source said they've also been forbidden to talk about it even on their own time but she was pissed and her journalistic and moral integrity as what she considers to be a government watchdog requires her to speak out, even if covertly, and she therefore asked me to "spread" the word...She said that journalism and the truth is at stake.
She said another friend of hers, a producer at MSNBC, said that an anchor by the name of Keith Olbermann had brought it up on his show on Friday eve and the axe came down. He's at least fighting back and talking about it on his "Blog", but she said that people there are worried that he's going to be fired by higher ups.
She said at this point the only way that the "real news" was going to be known is if the people started talking about it and made a big enough stink about it to our elected officials, the FEC, and "noise" to the international media, that our own media won't have any choice but to cover it. The only place you'll see this talked about right now is on the internet and on AirAmericaRadio.

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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2004_U.S._presidential_election_controversy

[steve2470]

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[mandyky]

18. I agree completely!

Maybe Soros or Rappaport can be talked into a cable news channel and more talk radio stations, especially in the swing states.

[cry baby]

20. We must de-corporatize news reporting.

How can you get the real news from an organization that is owned by a company that has a monetary stake in what is being reported?

We won't win (and by that I mean that America as we know it will cease to exist) with a corporate media. Money talks too loudly.