there's always a lot of bitching about how democrats don't get the message out.

[barbtries]

well, thousands marched in Raleigh this weekend. can you find it on the news?

i am so pissed. i am watching the local news while getting ready for work. someone got shot and killed due to road rage. no word on her religion. a storm is coming. dah de dah de dah

maybe democrats can stop blaming themselves and take the protests to the news stations. media is a HUGE part of the problem in this country and i for one am ready to stop whipping myself because of it.

[CurtEastPoint]

1. You're right. The media does a shit job of covering what really matters.

[Scuba]

2. The MSM works for the oligarchs. Don't expect them to provide fair coverage, they're propagandists.

[barbtries]

3. exactly, so my point is

instead of pointing the finger at ourselves for "bad messaging" maybe we can just keep a spotlight on what media does and does not do. oh it's so bad i cannot listen to NPR's political coverage let alone so-called "mainstream" crap. rachel and melissa i can usually bear, but why do they bring on asshole republicans and then act as if they're doing something good by that? unless they shine a light on what's wrong....

aargh. gotta go to work. i'm just turning bitter which pisses me off even more!

[Scuba]

4. Hard for us to direct the spotlights when the oligarchs own all the spotlights. That's why ...

... net neutrality is so important and why it's CRITICAL that the government does NOT create a definition for "journalists" who would receive freedom of the press priviledges.

[barbtries]

7. entirely agree. nt

[stillwaiting]

5. It's the elected Democratic politicians and leadership that is also to blame.

They DO have the spotlight or can have the spotlight in the media if they so choose.

They can get their message out as an organized Party with an organized agenda through their communications with voters, media appearances, while they represent "us" in Congress (a few actually do, thank you Elizabeth and Bernie), etc.

Of course, the media is not going to help us, but the elected politicians definitely share a huge part of the blame. They don't fight for our values, and they don't expose what the Republicans' agenda has brought to the American people in an effective way that resonates (and that should be easy).

[octoberlib]

20. /\ THIS /\

[Android3.14]

6. Looks like it was smaller than the previous year

It looks like it's more state news than national, but I found this.
http://www.wral.com/thousands-pack-downtown-raleigh-for-annual-hkonj-march-rally/14444668/
The clip isn't much, and with everyone gone for the long weekend, it may have been a matter of using canned stories and allocating limited resources for current news coverage.

Still sad to see such meager coverage of a great state news story.

[antiquie]

8. Last year, tens of thousands; this year thoussands?

Thousands pack downtown Raleigh for annual HKonJ march, rally
‘Moral March’ participants again demand changes to NC laws
LGBT groups join thousands at Raleigh march
Thousands attend Mass Moral March on Raleigh

[marions ghost]

17. OK the Washington Times reported it

in a fairly neutral way for a change.

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Read more: http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2015/feb/14/annual-mass-moral-march-for-nc-held-saturday-in-ra/#ixzz3RuyaBr00

This country is very strange. I hardly recognize it any more.

[antiquie]

18. My apologies, no offense intended.

BTW, The Carolina Mercury article has links to other news coverage including this The 2015 Moral Monday Movement: ‘North Carolina Is Our Selma’

[marions ghost]

23. None taken

you know I only clicked on the top link--thought it was all one link...

I appreciate the Carolina Mercury article. Am totally behind this movement in every way.

[The Wizard]

9. Perhaps surrounding media outlets

and making entering and exiting their buildings a daunting task. Our media serves as propaganda to serve the wealthy elites by keeping the masses misinformed. Pox News just provides cover for the others.

[Triana]

10. I am usually referring to our Democratic "representatives" for not getting the message out..

...not my fellow Democratic voters themselves. We're voiceless because they cower and hide in corners. Our reps should be out in public and on airwaves raising hell. But they're inexplicably not. I always question why Sanders and Warren can get TV time but no other Dems can (though Sanders isn't a Dem)

[dicksmc3]

11. sick and tired of MSM?

I have an answer for you. Robert Reich and Moveon have a program that bypasses the MSM and gets the REAL message out. So go to Moveon.org and sign up and help this effort.

[marions ghost]

16. At the same time that we get the real message out

--we need to actively monitor and work against the monolithic mass media.

Because the vast majority of people in this country are suckers for the hyped-up distorted garbage they dish out. Hooked on it. And will never get the real message...

Two pronged.

[ColesCountyDem]

12. In a county of 37,000, we got almost 600 to march in November...

Prior to our gubernatorial election, we organized a "Vote Quinn" march in the county seat, and had almost 600 registered Democrats join in. Not even the local newspaper (owned by Gatehouse media) covered the march.

[Wounded Bear]

13. There was a shooting incident in Eastern Washington last week...

There were protests over the weekend. It got some coverage from the local news, but it seems that the NRA has won. The national media doesn't get excited about shootings any more. Just another day at the office.

[marions ghost]

14. Absolutely

--we need to protest the major media outlets and their constant distortion and mind control tactics.

They have polarized this country for their own ends.

Tired Of It.

[bread_and_roses]

15. Point on media spot-on but Moral Mondays are not "the Democrats"

Moral Mondays are organized by a coalition of activists, not the Democratic Party.

How many Party leaders have participated? Here in NY we held some Moral Mondays at the Capital and around the state - I don't recall Senator Schumer joining us? One target of the protests is our DEMOCRATIC Governor who is waging a war on public education - and teachers unions - in NY.

The media aside, "the Democrats" are neither saying what needs to be said nor even trying to do what needs to be done. They are far too deep in the pockets of their Corporate Paymasters.

[appalachiablue]

19. +1. The sad truth.

[gklagan]

21. be the media

The thing I took from Gandhi's auto-bio was that he was constantly setting up newspapers. It's all well and good to be the change you want to see but it helps to be the media too.

Anyone on this thread have interest or experience in setting up alt-media sources for NC or have NC specific outlets they want to share?

[barbtries]

22. i have a few

http://progressnc.org/news
http://pulse.ncpolicywatch.org/
http://www.bluenc.com/

i post to fb all the time which is the only practical way i can be the media with my work schedule.

[RobertEarl]

24. Kick for NC n/t