Rebuild The American Dream: Shame The Press

[babylonsister]

http://www.newscorpse.com/ncWP/?p=3947

Rebuild The American Dream: Shame The Press
Posted by Mark on February 26, 2011 at 10:28 pm.



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For the hard work and positive energy of this movement to reap benefits, we are going to have to make the media do its job. They didn’t seem to have any problem covering sparsely attended town halls last year where Tea Baggers harangued their congressmen. Of course the Tea Partiers had the advantage of their own house news network, Fox News. When you can organize through a nationally broadcast platform with buses and PR provided by lobbyists (FreedomWorks, Americans for Prosperity) and billionaires (the Koch brothers and Rupert Murdoch), you enjoy a valuable advantage that the grassroots doesn’t have.

That’s the challenge we face today. Getting people to commit turns out to have been the easy part. What do we have to do to get the media to do their job and provide honest coverage? This weekend the Sunday morning news shows will be populated almost entirely by Republicans and right-wingers. NBC’s Meet the Press added AFL-CIO president Richard Trumka late yesterday after being shamed by the brazenly biased lineups that were released by the networks.

This is further evidence of the favoritism that business receives from the press. Every local newspaper has a business section. There are three business channels on cable TV. Where is the labor section of the paper? Where is the Labor News Network?

Shame appears to be the best weapon in this battle and people should make generous use of it. If we contact both local and national media and insist that they cover these events, the people will do the rest. It’s clear from the demonstrations today there is sufficient passion to fuel this movement. Now let’s get the media on board and produce some results.

[sandyshoes17]

1. remember the Towne Halls

3 teabaggers disrupt a town hall meeting and every station carried it. I saw it a couple times a day, even if if was on a weekend. 100,000 people show up and no one covers it? It's disgraceful, maybe through this more people will wake up to our so called media.

[Jim__]

2. The sad thing is that if I want the truth, I watch Al-jazeera.

The American media has turned itself into a joke.

[oldlib]

3. I was looking all day Saturday

for TV coverage of the Solidarity Demonstrations across the country. The right wing media, of course, showed only junk like "lockup" on MSNBC. This morning on the HLN news channel they did show clips of the demonstration in Olympia, Washington, they also showed the vastly out numbered Tea party counter group.

[annabanana]

4. It is EXACTLY this disconnect that got thousands of people killed in Iraq.

There are real world consequences when we allow our "media" to be overrun with corporate interests. The consolidation is near complete and the populace is VERY badly served. Our Country is in danger when our people are misinformed.

"No one would have guessed. . .we never saw it coming."

[babylonsister]

5. In light of what the media is NOT doing, kick! nt