Cross posted from the CA forum: Need media for MCM's book

[EFerrari]

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=141x19178

Fyi, the bad news is the people I've contacted seem unresponsive. The good news is, I've reached out to my Greens and they are scouring their own networks for us.

It would be a crime to just let this book time out.

[Dunvegan]

1. sfexpat...do you know anyone downtown at Current TV?

I'm probably several degrees of separation from them, but I do have friends at Bay Area Video Coalition, and they are working closely with Current, Gore's new station.

Current might be a good possibility.

[EFerrari]

2. No, I don't. But I will call or email anyone.

:)

[Dunvegan]

3. Okay...I'll pull together some leads...

...get back to you with them...and we can hit them from both sides. :)

[EFerrari]

4. Super. Thank you.

:hi:

[mod mom]

5. Working on that too. We need to put pressure on the media to cover this i

[EFerrari]

6. I got a good response today from a friend with a show

who wants to check out FA. Yeah!

And, I just thought of something. When Okrent was the NYT Public Editor/Liar, he promised that the Washington bureau would follow up on the election fraud story if facts kept coming to light.

Well, we know that the evidence has mounted and the NYTs has not kept its promise.

Mark's book is the best evidence of that, isn't it?

Is there a way for me to work this angle and try to squeeze a review out of them?

[mod mom]

8. We are the MEDIA. Here is a great example (Jon Stewart):

The Coming Media Revolution ("The BitTorrent Effect" -- 'Wired' Magazine)



"All hell's about to break loose," says Brad Burnham, a venture capitalist with Union Square Ventures in Manhattan, which studies the impact of new technology on traditional media. BitTorrent does not require the wires or airwaves that the cable and network giants have spent billions constructing and buying. And it pounds the final nail into the coffin of must-see, appointment television. BitTorrent transforms the Internet into the world's largest TiVo.

One example of how the world has already changed: Gary Lerhaupt, a graduate student in computer science at Stanford, became fascinated with Outfoxed, the documentary critical of Fox News, and thought more people should see it. So he convinced the film's producer to let him put a chunk of it on his Web site for free, as a 500-Mbyte torrent. Within two months, nearly 1,500 people downloaded it. That's almost 750 gigs of traffic, a heck of a wallop. But to get the ball rolling, Lerhaupt's site needed to serve up only 5 gigs. After that, the peers took over and hosted it themselves. His bill for that bandwidth? $4. There are drinks at Starbucks that cost more. "It's amazing - I'm a movie distributor," he says. "If I had my own content, I'd be a TV station."

During the last century, movie and TV companies had to be massive to afford distribution. Those economies of scale aren't needed anymore. Will the future of broadcasting need networks, or even channels?

"Blogs reduced the newspaper to the post. In TV, it'll go from the network to the show," says Jeff Jarvis, president of the Internet strategy company Advance.net and founder of Entertainment Weekly. ... Burnham goes one step further. He thinks TV-viewing habits are becoming even more atomized. People won't watch entire shows; they'll just watch the parts they care about.

Evidence that Burnham's prediction is coming true came a few weeks before the US presidential election in November, when Jon Stewart - host of Comedy Central's irreverent The Daily Show - made a now-famous appearance on CNN's Crossfire. Stewart attacked the hosts, Paul Begala and Tucker Carlson, calling them political puppets. "What you do is partisan hackery," he said, just before he called Carlson "a dick." Amusing enough, but what happened next was more remarkable. Delighted fans immediately ripped the segment and posted it online as a torrent. Word of Stewart's smackdown spread rapidly through the blogs, and within a day at least 4,000 servers were hosting the clip. One host reported having, at any given time, more than a hundred peers swapping and downloading the file. No one knows exactly how many people got the clip through BitTorrent, but this kind of traffic on the very first day suggests a number in the hundreds of thousands - and probably much higher. Another 2.3 million people streamed it from iFilm.com over the next few weeks. By contrast, CNN's audience for Crossfire was only 867,000. Three times as many people saw Stewart's appearance online as on CNN itself.

This is from page 2 of a five-page article from 'Wired' magazine here:
http://www.wired.com/wired/archive/13.01/bittorrent.html?pg=2&topic=bittorrent&topic_set=

[EFerrari]

9. Okay: so, we need someone at the top ten sites to run

a review of the book. Or an ad, but a review would be better?

I hit the homepage link "advertise liberally". The top ten sites on that list are the sites we need.

Kos
DU
Talking Points Memo
Crooks and Liars
Eschaton
AmericaBlog
Firedoglake
The Washington Monthly
The Agonist
MyDD

/blogs --> sites

[mod mom]

10. There is a group that has organized to focus on media tour to get speakers

such as MCM , Fitakis and others out in the spot light. There is a concerted effort for speakers to speak before as many groups and to as much media as possible. We can all play a role in this by hounding the press to cover the issue. Send related articles to them. Air America has been very helpful. I don't know if you heard John Gideon and Bob on Laura Flanders last night, but other AAR hosts have been hosting election reformers, as well.

[EFerrari]

7. And, locally, I gave our very sweet Reader's Rep some hell

for SF Chronicle's failure to follow up on their horrendous Kevin Shelley smear.

We went back and forth in a friendly way.

How can I catapult the propaganda using this exchange? :)

[Mark_Crispin_Miller]

11. I can't thank you enough

for all your help. We will prevail, if we keep the pressure on!

[EFerrari]

12. That's right. Half Dome wasn't made in a day. lol

[mod mom]

13. It's up to us! nt

[EFerrari]

14. Here is the link to the E&P story on the blackout. It's a good tool

because it quotes Paul Craig Roberts' review. You have probably seen it already but here's a snip to jog memory:


Columnist Mentions Election Book Ignored By Most Newspapers

By Dave Astor

Published: January 23, 2006 2:28 PM ET

NEW YORK Mark Crispin Miller says most general-circulation newspapers haven't reviewed his "Fooled Again" book, which alleges that the 2004 election was stolen. But Creators Syndicate columnist Paul Craig Roberts gave the three-month-old book a positive mention in a piece dated last Thursday.


http://www.editorandpublisher.com/eandp/search/article_display.jsp?vnu_content_id=1001883280

[mod mom]

15. Thanks, I missed this article. Great insight on a free press:

"Roberts added that the non-partisan federal Government Accountability Office (GAO) issued a September 2005 report noting, among other things, that "it was possible to alter voting machines so that a ballot cast for one candidate would be recorded for another."
The media, he continued, "has shown no interest in the GAO report. In my opinion, a free press has proven to be inconsistent with the recently permitted highly concentrated corporate ownership of the U.S. media."

Pretty damn scary.

[EFerrari]

16. It is. I think I'm going to send this article to the Chronicle.

I'm just not sure who to approach -- that reporter who wrote the mostly neutral Shelley story or the Reader's Rep. Maybe the Reader's Rep as he promised to have someone write a follow up and no one did.

Or, I guess I could cold email it to the reviews people.