Buzzflash: Clark Kent (Olbermann) Vs the Media Wimps

[Catchawave]

Election Angst Update: Clark Kent Vs the Media Wimps

by Maureen Farrell

"The greatest threat to truth today may well be from my profession." -- Legendary reporter Carl Bernstein

It was the best of times. It was the worst of times. While some in the mainstream media were finally paying attention to an important story as it was unfolding (rather than waiting three years, ala the New York Times), others were taking the usual safe and tired tact.

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http://www.buzzflash.com/farrell/04/11/far04040.html

[mctrotter5]

1. Thoughtful article. Thanks. Any ideas how we can put more

pressure on the MSM?

[cloudythescribbler]

2. HOW TO PUT MORE PRESSURE ON MSM

First there needs to be an organization to do it. You need to put together an organization on the election fraud issue, initially on the web, widely disseminating your clickable website, to pressure the media ON THIS ISSUE. This group needs to get going in a matter of days to make a difference. They should focus VERY HOT attention on the 'progressive' bloggers who have been dragging their feet. Postings on sites or communications to and about these bloggers -- including spinsanity, Eschaton, and Talking Points Memo, but also Media Matters & MichaelMoore.com would be a start. There are also less obvious sites, like OpenDemocracy and Emerging Democratic Majority to post.
The media issue people would focus also on letters ABOUT the media lockdown naming issues and newspapers in letters to the editor of LOCAL newspapers across the country, and try to gather together email lists for letters to the editor in newspapers where they are more than likely to be printed. Unfortunately local papers are often VERY SLOW about printing letters.
There could also branch out into PROTESTS -- focused on MAJOR MEDIA, including the NY Times, and others who have been burying this story. PUT MAXIMUM pressure on PUBLIC radio, like NPR, as they really should pay FULL attention to this issue, including the issue of the MEDIA LOCKDOWN. calls into radio stations could request programs specifically devoted to election fraud issue, and specifically devoted to media lockdown of this issue.
There is apparently MORE coverage of this issue, ironically, in the MSM in Britain and Canada than in the US. This is bizarre. Sure the mass media are just a machine for justifying the lying, but I haven't seen them so systematically BURY such an active story with so many people talking about it and so many REAL stories breaking regularly. Trying to get international media to focus coverage on media lockdown in US would be a good idea.
If people or groups with money support this, they could do more, like buying FULL PAGE ADS in the NY Times, highlighting media lockdown issue IN THE NEW YORK TIMES ITSELF and elsewhere.

These methods would be a start

[newyawker99]

8. Hi cloudythescribbler!!

Welcome to DU!! :toast:

[rainbow4321]

11. Newspapers are catching a clue....

Now if we could do the same to the cable news channels...

http://www.wired.com/news/culture/0,1284,65813,00.html

Young people just aren't interested in reading newspapers and print magazines. In fact, according to Washington City Paper, The Washington Post organized a series of six focus groups in September to determine why the paper was having so much trouble attracting younger readers. You see, daily circulation, which had been holding firm at 770,000 subscribers for the last few years, fell more than 6 percent to about 720,100 by June 2004, with the paper losing 4,000 paying subscribers every month.

Imagine what higher-ups at the Post must have thought when focus-group participants declared they wouldn't accept a Washington Post subscription even if it were free. The main reason (and I'm not making this up): They didn't like the idea of old newspapers piling up in their houses.

Don't think for a minute that young people don't read. On the contrary, they do, many of them voraciously. But having grown up under the credo that information should be free, they see no reason to pay for news. Instead they access The Washington Post website or surf Google News, where they select from literally thousands of information sources. They receive RSS feeds on their PDAs or visit bloggers whose views mesh with their own. In short, they customize their news-gathering experience in a way a single paper publication could never do. And their hands never get dirty from newsprint.

[jamboi]

12. What about MoveOn? We need ads Now! t/n

[demo dutch]

3. Thanks for posting... very well written

[Kurovski]

4. Perfectly terrific article.

Cleanly written with many helpful links.

A good URL to Email to those new to all this, and certainly worthy of a bookmark.

<http://www.buzzflash.com/farrell/04/11/far04040.html>

Thank you Maureen Farrell and Buzzflash.

[Catchawave]

5. I agree it's pretty terrific, hope all get to read it....

...and I can't stress enough how important it is we keep the emails going to KeithO, he seems to love "counting" them too.

from his blog page:

Keep those e-mails coming at [e-mail]

I honestly think we're the wind beneath his wings! I know, I know, corny :)

[Kurovski]

6. Kick n/t

[Soup Bean]

7. Superman Olberman...I can dig it...

[spooky3]

14. and I like the Keith as Clark Kent comparison.

[cyberpj]

9. Other vote fraud links for info

Love Keith! Have been a fan for ages.

Am new here and just starting to see what's up so forgive me if I'm repeating any old news.

Other links to help with vote fraud info:

http://www.votergate.tv/

http://www.blackboxvoting.org/

[Disturbed]

10. democracy isn't dead....yet.

It is limping along. Yes, supporting Kieth and many others is vital.

[babylonsister]

13. BIG KICK

[Kellis]

15. Keith Rox!!

That was a great article~Thanks for posting :thumbsup:

:kick: