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2Design Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jul-06-04 07:25 PM
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Media and campaign ads and waste of money ....it is only
filling the coffers of the media moguls.. .there must be a better way..
The media remind me of divorce laws who stir things up so it takes a lot more time and money to settle things.....

this is a note I sent to the last note asking for money
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Can't we just ignore some of the crap they spew... they never answer what ever comes up.
where are the torture trials?
Where are the war criminal trials?
Where is the felony trial for outing Plame?
Where is any of it?
They bury it by not answering. Can't we do something similar. Can't we stop wasting money on ads that are attacking or defending.


Can't we just list the facts daily in the newspaper, on the internet, in magazines. I know I rarely watch TV any more because it is all garbage.


They belong in jail and no one seems to notice. If all the media is going to do is stir up trouble so that we all spend more money on ads and put more in their pockets, we need to find other ways of being in the news.

Positive things. Call press conferences all over the nation from small groups, boy scouts, girl scouts, church groups....use positives to over shadow these idiots....

there is no link between the saudis who crashed planes into the world trade towers and iraq. And no one in the news is willing to go with that story. No one is willing to take these people to trial for killing masses of people in the usa and over seas...

Ads are not enough and aren't working. Find something better. Throwing more money at the problem is not solving it...
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stilpist Donating Member (335 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jul-06-04 07:54 PM
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1. Yes, the current system sucks.
The way it is now, to have any chance of winning, you've got to spend big bucks on advertising. And big media just keeps getting bigger, more powerful, and more concentrated. I believe that publicly funded campaigns are the best solution. Check out this link

http://www.publicampaign.org/ - maybe you'll agree.

We need to get rid of the best government money can buy.

- stil

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2Design Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jul-06-04 08:25 PM
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2. I like Canada system. Call for an election and six weeks later they
have it.....
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iverglas Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jul-07-04 08:17 AM
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3. even better

It's down to four weeks now. ;)

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