I'm sure you've Noticed that the Media is "On-Board"......

[FrenchieCat]

attempting to kill the Public Option, so......

I suspect perhaps it is the advertising dollars that network and cable television
receives year in, year out from big pharma, etc...

I think that this issue needs to be addressed, and WE need to do something about this slant
I'm picking up on. Anytime reporters are practically stating that the Public Option is DOA, before the bill is even offered, you know there some media colusion going on, and I don't like it.

So I humbly suggest that we bombard the media (as well all congresscritters) this entire weekend.

If you Twit, then do it....in reference to this media bias.
If you email or call, then do so!

This is important, and I'll be damned if I wait till after-the-fact to figure out that if pressure would have been applied to the media and their reporting to be more even handed, and less opinionated without any facts, that we could have made a difference.

Hell, if a Joke from Letterman can garnet the kind of media attention it did, why can't our many letters and phone calls refferencing the reportage of the Health Care issue?

So come on keyboard commandos, let's get it done this weekend....for everyone's fathers.....
and mothers, and for the children, for that matter!

Here's some listing and tools (in more ways than one!)
They're already complicit and therefore responsible for the theft of the 2000 election, the re-election of Bush, getting us into war and for the looting of our treasury.

I'm sick of their shit, and I'm not taking it anymore!
We all need to be sick of this shit!
Contact your congresscritter using this tool: http://www.congress.org/congressorg/directory/congdir.tt



Contact the media and tell them you aren't taking this anymore!

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[Joanne98]

1. Excellent idea. K&R

[FrenchieCat]

13. I'm gonna respond to every post response, even if it is just to say thank you,

and keep this kicked.

Too many seem to have something to write, till it is time to actually do something....

[NMDemDist2]

2. i called my Senator who's on the financial cmte today

i'm calling my congresscritter and other Senator as we speak......

[FrenchieCat]

14. Thank you!

We need that and than some! :hi:

[fascisthunter]

3. kick....

pass it on!

[FrenchieCat]

15. Thanks!

[Raine1967]

4. THANKS!

Vital information, and one that will be used by lil ol' me.

you are the best, Frenchie... :hug:

[FrenchieCat]

6. You are welcome.....

will do much more than if simply whining all weekend about what a terrible president Obama is.

Because in the end, it ain't about him so much.
We need to take a page out of the Iranian Reformist Playbook on this,
and our anti-government Media is certainly a key player in the debate
being had on health care....even if they pretend not to be.

[Raine1967]

5. K&R

Let's get this to the greatest! The information is invaluable...


:kick:

[FrenchieCat]

8. Seems like I soon as "Media" and "what we can do" is implied,

interest in that type of thread at DU dies a quiet and noble death.

[Joanne98]

7. This won't stop until we get media reform.

In 1983, 50 corporations controlled the vast majority of all news media in the U.S. At the time, Ben Bagdikian was called "alarmist" for pointing this out in his book, The Media Monopoly. In his 4th edition, published in 1992, he wrote "in the U.S., fewer than two dozen of these extraordinary creatures own and operate 90% of the mass media" -- controlling almost all of America's newspapers, magazines, TV and radio stations, books, records, movies, videos, wire services and photo agencies. He predicted then that eventually this number would fall to about half a dozen companies. This was greeted with skepticism at the time. When the 6th edition of The Media Monopoly was published in 2000, the number had fallen to six. Since then, there have been more mergers and the scope has expanded to include new media like the Internet market. More than 1 in 4 Internet users in the U.S. now log in with AOL Time-Warner, the world's largest media corporation.
In 2004, Bagdikian's revised and expanded book, The New Media Monopoly, shows that only 5 huge corporations -- Time Warner, Disney, Murdoch's News Corporation, Bertelsmann of Germany, and Viacom (formerly CBS) -- now control most of the media industry in the U.S. General Electric's NBC is a close sixth.

http://www.corporations.org/media/

[FrenchieCat]

9. Well, that ain't gonna happen over the weekend,

and I have posted that exact chart many, many times.

The point is what can we do based on the constraints that we have to deal with.

so for now, CNN et al, needs phone calls, thousands of twits, fax and more faxes, and an avalanche of emails, if you ask me.

[Joanne98]

21. You're right.

:patriot:

[FrenchieCat]

10. Well, that ain't gonna happen over the weekend,

and I have posted that exact chart many, many times.

The point is what can we do based on the constraints that we have to deal with.

so for now, CNN et al, needs phone calls, thousands of twits, fax and more faxes, and an avalanche of emails, if you ask me.

[flamingdem]

11. Great list thanks! nt

[FrenchieCat]

16. You are welcome!

[Cha]

12. Oh Shite! That's right..are you kidding me!

corporatemediaWhores Losing their almighty Drug Dollar?! NEVER.

[FrenchieCat]

17. That's right! They are the enemy and should be treated as such....

No, they are not an accessory, they are accomplices.

[andym]

18. K&R!

[FrenchieCat]

20. Thank you for the K&R!

[SpiralHawk]

19. Our mass corporate media is pathetically in the tank...

on bended knee. As usual. Ptoooey.

[FrenchieCat]

23. Yes.....very WhoreLike!

[firedupdem]

22. Rec'd! Thanks and I'm on it. Thanks! n/t

[FrenchieCat]

24. Thank you! The more, the betta!

[shireen]

25. i wonder when they'll be shutting up Ed Schultz ...

he's been totally outspoken about single-payer on his MSNBC show. :applause:

Go Big Ed!

[FrenchieCat]

26. He helps the cause, but his megaphone is not quite large enough

to sip into the general American consciousness!

Many Americans are being disinformed bigtime,
and the media is the one doing it.

[Lugnut]

27. Bookmarking.

Thanks Frenchie!

[FrenchieCat]

28. Welcome!

:hi:

[a kennedy]

29. Thanks for all this contact info....

I've copied it and will save it for further reference.......K & R

[Kaleko]

30. K & R plus bookmarked.

[Raine1967]

31. KICK!

Here is the letter I typed up and altered as needed for whom I am sending it to:



It seems to me that < media outlet/ name, etc> -- are trying to push the meme that the public option is dead.

I, as a simple, singular American am here to tell that it is not. It is far from DOA. I am asking that you report the news in a more fair and even handed fashion regarding health care reform in America. This is not a left or right issue -- this is an American issue.

You, as a member of the fourth estate -- have been accused of being liberal or conservative, depending upon who calls you out on any particular issue. I am not willing to do either.

What I have come to understand, in watching many different cable outlets, is that there are a lot of advertising dollars that come from the pharmecuetical industry as well as the insurance industry in the form of advertising dollars. I understand that you have to make a profit, and may be concerned about these industries pulling their dollars for advertising, but as the fourth estate, Americans need you to report the facts. It seems that regarding the Issue of Health care reform in America, it is not happening.

We need -- at the very least-- a public option. We have a lot of good people in the house and the Senate that ARE pushing for that, but time and time again, I see the opposite reported. As a matter of fact, I keep hearing that a public option is all but DOA from the media and that is simply not true.

The fact is -- NO bill has yet been presented. NONE. This is all still being worked out, and people ARE making calls and asking for their voices to be heard -- along side corporate interests. We ARE speaking to our representatives. There is no doubt in my mind (and many others) that corporate interests represent a lot more money than most Americans have right now.

So, I ask you: Please report facts for the people, not for the insurance industries and big pharma. This issue is too big not to report on. David Letterman got more air time than this and that just seems unjust.

[flpoljunkie]

32. MSNBC: Is President Obama's healthcare reform already on life support?

[Jennicut]

33. Sigh. The MSM is so obvious.

[redqueen]

34. Yep. Which makes it all the more puzzling

when people post the fearmongering dumbassery here as if it's actually meaningful.

[Blue_Roses]

35. kick

:kick:

[zulchzulu]

36. K&R! Actually they should rename it the "Non-Monopoly Option"

Maybe the "Affordable Option" as well...

[Forkboy]

37. They're on something.

Too late to rec, but I can kick. :kick:

[FrenchieCat]

38. thanks!