Please see below on a joint effort we could all be part of....a Wiki or
Shared Word file where we have 2 or 4 columns of Media Injustice.***



We must start making our own talking points, and lists of evidence of
the media slant, the undeniable corporate republican affiliation. The
republicans are the party of corporations, big finance, big medicine,
big insurance. These forces have combined to steal everything that
wasn't nailed down, and basically bill the taxpayer for their legal
fees when caught redhanded.

They have stomped human dignity, and the promises we earned from our
country. We sweated and fought and died for those promises, not them.



The media is absolutely complicit, absolutely conspiring with the
corporations and republicans. They have made an art-form of using the
power of TV to reduce rational and critical thinking, to whip america
up into a high-school cheerleading session, pep-fest, popularity
contest. It goes hand in glove with their desire to promote a
self-absorbed, deluded, confidence-lacking, consumerist society. The
effects on politics are devastating, think of how ALL of our national
politics today are funneled thru 4 major corporations, Corporate Radio,
and tv ads which our own local stations use to make huge profits while
dis-serving their constituents.



We need to re-write all the rules as pertains to media, journalism, and
public airwaves. We have seen how the corporations bought, stole, and
weaseled our airwaves AWAY from us, the rightful owners. I think the
airwaves were first developed and institutionalized in the 30's.

Of course, they immed. turned the weapon AT US and began brainwashing
and intimidating, and culture-izing us. Your breath stinks, your hairs
a mess, you should buy this, don't be this dork, don't be that guy. It
took them many decades to wrest total control from us, but once they
did that they had NO RESTRAINTS other than some swear-words and nudity.
And a few PSAs. You can pretty well brainwash a people without using
profanity and nudity. Ask the Germans.

It did NOT take them many decades to reign in control over the
Internet...one of the boldest and freest and open communications tools
ever. They have done everything possible to commoditize it, weaken it,
water it down, buy it, legislate against the people, and render it
harmless to their vested interests in TV/RADIO. Their ultimate goal is
for it to be like cable TV or broadcast....mostly one way and mostly
(if not totally) controlled and metered and if nothing else, a great
way to track the population and snoop on them and surveil your every
move.





So, we came up with a very cool tool (the internet) in a bold, brave
way that was paradigm changer.....and within 10-15 years it has been
neutered and is on the auction block. The Internet had the capability
of making the Networks look very, very bad. And they can't have that.
It was built with The Peoples money, just like the TV and Radio
airwaves. It belongs to us, but just like old media.....we are losing
it. It is already AIMED at us, and it will make TV look like a
PlaySkool device if things continue.



So we need to change, completely, who controls the airwaves and the
internet tubes. These corporations were given a public trust, which is
undeniably broken.



***I want to start a 2-4 column list. Can anyone here provide a link to
storage place....where we can access the ongoing list and add to it,
edit it? Or does somebody have a better WIKI idea?

The 2 or 4 column list would show basically equal issues, and how the
press handled them. With video clips and some LexisNexis we should be
able to document a random, but significant group, without having to
footnote and document everything.



Much of it will be pretty obvious....Like Rev. Wright. Untold weeks of
devastating, 24/7 coverage plus rampant speculation, and it also has a
lot of mileage. Gets pulled out whenever and wherever it is convenient,
months and months later. McCain and his pastors and their
teachings....Or Palin's - not a peep. Even when he is nationally being
exposed sucking up to them....the door slams and no-one gets a peep
from the media.



A 4 column list might have the comparitive issue with Obama + and -...............and McCain + or -

we would make mention of positive/neutral reporting and negative
reporting. In the case of total silence from the Corporate Media we
could have a blackout symbol. These blackouts wouldn't just be for
McCain whenever the press decides to Slam The Door on an uncomfortable
topic....but also when they fail to throw any light on a B H O
accomplishment or refuse to comment on the side of the truth while they
relentlessly focus on the negative or untrue or rumored items.



Smaller, more condensed items from 2000 and 2004 could be close to the
top just to give a taste of what happened in those years. Kerry,
decorated war hero....Bush deserter. Ran away. Kerry got portrayed as a
weak-kneed appeaser.



We have seen a systematic, total evisceration and emasculation of dem
candidates since at least Carter. The older I get the more I realize
these tactics and schizms are not totally absent from older politics,
but never was there a national blaring trumpet of visuals and audio,
lots of it in realtime, and much of it replayed and replayed.....like
we have today. In 1910....how could a rightwing echo chamber work? Even
in 1930 Germany they needed total control of the presses, radio, and
film, and every other political and governmental organization to pull
it off....not just TV/Radio.

Even in 1940. By the time TV got to be in a majority of homes in the
late 40s and 50s.....much of the pieces were in place for national
brainwashing, on a day to day basis. The drumbeat, the cacophony, the
pace has only increased. The stakes have increased. The amount of pure
skullduggery and huge ripoffs has skyrocketed. And the amount of
obfuscation, selective showing of information, and water-carrying for
the corporations is unbelievable.

The pattern for turning honorable, capable, far-seeing, and People
oriented candidates into a knee-knocking, pantswetting appeasers is set
in stone. The only thing that resonates, or is propagated thru the
media about the Dems. Warmongers against gays is their winning message.



Can we get together here a good comprehensive list of the sheer
adulteration of truth that is being perpetrated on the People of the
United States? Our next step, after proving the lies of the Candidates
and their Media Conspirators....is to fight for true Communications
reform. (Big Telcos) Remember, we also need to deal with the companies
that compromise our security and privacy everday. We are paying them
monthly to do this, and they were the most prominent lobbies at both
conventions. This is where power is made and kept, using their unholy
power over the eyeballs of america. Profits and ratings are BYPRODUCTS
of controlling your eyes. Profits and ratings will come no matter what
when you own ALL the media.



Anyone with ideas on how to make a WIKI or Word Doc where we can tally
up the hard, substantive slant of the corporate media, to constantly
trumpet the good side of the Repub. candidate, and to constantly
impugn, question, berate, and slime the Dem? With even our alternative
media, such as it is, the lies and smears and obfuscations mount up so
quickly, and slide off the media cycle so soon, we need to keep a real
score, with obvious examples, which can cement a set of "facts" to
bolster many pundits and surrogates, and the candidate himself. We do
have some internet outlets which deal with the day to day details and
grinds, and try to swat down the rumors and display the hypocrisy. But
do they have an up-to-the-minute list from the last year or two, which
can be whipped out and show at-a-glance all the media injustice? No,
and don't hold your breath on CBS, ABC, FOX, NBC, or CNN showing you
one.

We are fighting the machine. Trying to ski up an avalanche. Trying to
route our message thru the Media to win against the Media Party is a
ticket to disaster. We need to stop the bleeding, play the best hand
with what we have, be able to make unspinnable arguments when given the
slim chances, and do an end around on the media so we are not counting
on them to carry our campaign communication. Really, we seem to be down
to just Ads as the last phase of prez. campaigning. There are debates,
sure; but I think we all remember watching Gore beat Bush 3 or 4 times,
Kerry beat Bush 3 or 4 times....and we woke up each and every morning
after to learn Bush had won them all.

So, if you have ideas on how to make news (legal and peaceful)  without
the media being able to have their hands all over it, without the media
controlling the frame, this would be a good time for that also.
Unspinnable, must cover it events. B H O cannot just rely on ads and
the good graces of the media.