Is there any way to tutor the media in its civic duty?

[Skidmore]

We know that * and his crew deny access to the media that won't report and support their propoganda. We have a fettered (and fetid) media. Well, dammit, * needs them more than they need him. They have the power in this instance. By refusing to publish or report blatant lies, this ship of state could grind to a halt so it could be refitted. What would it take?

[DELUSIONAL]

1. Total boycott of the media by the consumers of their biased crap

This means turning OFF the TV and then letting ALL the advertisers know that you are not watching their advertisements nor are you purchasing anything from the media.

This means going cold turkey -- just turning off the TV and the radio -- listen ONLY to Air America Radio.

Economic warfare is the only thing that they would understand.

We would need to find a way to let the corporate media know how many people have turned off their TVs.

I realize that many people here are addicted -- you can use your TV to watch videos and DVDs.

Other than economic warfare I don't know how we can bring about any change to the current trash TV.

[Hello_Kitty]

5. I know. I was going to cancel my cable but I love HBO shows

So I'm getting digital cable, which costs the same and I'll get BBC too. No more cable news whores or network TV. That's it. I'm done.

[acmavm]

2. Teach something new to the likes of Tim Russert, Tony Snow, Tony

Blakely, that horrible Charles Krauthammer? So many more could be added to this list, in fact almost all of them.

See some guts from the major newspapers like the NYT, WP, etc. even though they supported Kerry? Hardly, they're scared little whipped puppies and they're back in line like good little soldiers.

We have no media with any conscience now. They're running scared. If they weren't there would have been questions about the way the voting went, the obvious scams with the absentee and provisional votes. Hell, they would have been screaming like banshees over the fact that the republicans were screwing with the elections right after it occurred.

No, they're back to being good little soldiers and they're hardly likely to find their integrity or credibility. It's extinct now, like the dodo and the dinosaur.

[Tandalayo_Scheisskopf]

3. I know some reporters.

The problem does not lie with them, as a whole. The problem lies at the editorial, executive and publisher levels.

The reporters live for the big one. They are as ambitious as anyone and want to advance their careers. The editors are issued a big box of spikes and told to use them in a manner befitting the whims and caprices of corporate.

This is the truth.

[Crunchy Frog]

4. The problem isn't that the media doesn't

know how to tell the truth, (although it is gradually losing that knowledge, witness the CBS fiasco). It's that the media doesn't want to tell the truth. That isn't its job. Its job isn't even to sell things and get ratings and make money.

Since the massive consolidation of media ownership by corporations whose interests are served by Republican rule, its job is to be the propaganda arm of Republican and corporate interests.

It doesn't even matter if a publication, a station, or a program is losing money, since making money isn't its job. It will just be subsidized by some other part of the conglomerate that is making money.

There is no way to change this, other than by changing media ownership laws. This is what big media is and that's the simple truth.

I am boycotting all corporate media from here on out. I already boycott all corporate newspapers and magazines. I haven't paid my cable bill in months, and they will be shutting it off any day, and it will stay off.

I suggest that we do whatever we can to build up an independent media, and not bother putting our focus on the corporate media.

[Joy Anne]

6. coping with the media

Join http://www.rapidresponsenetwork.org/, a Dean-origin group that points out media errors to them, rebukes them, and occasionally pats them on the back. We started out with mostly letters to the editor and have been moving beyond that.

Yesterday I caught Candy (aka Dulce) Crowley saying Democrats had lots of paid voter registration people whereas the Republican counterparts were all volunteers. Actually, the reverse is closer to the truth.

So I wrote to CNN ASAP and then posted the correction letter to the state RR list, and others on the list wrote to CNN also. At least they'll know someone's catching their BS.

[The Flaming Red Head]

9. the link wouldn't work with the puncutation

http://www.rapidresponsenetwork.org/ Thanks for the link Joy Anne I plan to pass this one around.

[Joy Anne]

14. Please do

There's an awful lot of work to be done.

[izzie]

7. They are big business so why change?

Some will go for a set voting group but my guess is big business hates to talk big business down. Why would you?

[greekspeak]

8. They know their duty,,,they have turned their back on it.

All they see is $$$. They have chosen to be rich instead of principled. They are a mouthpiece for the Puke party. Yet people here watch it intently. "Keep your friends close and your enemies closer" is a common battle cry. This does not work with broadcast media. With them, it is "turn them off." They can only have so few viewers until they start hurting and dying off.

[DeepModem Mom]

10. Maybe the most important question regarding this crisis of democracy --

and the probable answer is not comforting --

[ElsewheresDaughter]

11. yeah it's bring back "The Fairness Doctrine" that reagan & newt killed

FAIRNESS DOCTRINE. ... With the deregulation sweep of the Reagan Administration during the 1980s, the Commission dissolved the fairness doctrine. ...
www.museum.tv/archives/etv/F/htmlF/fairnessdoct/fairnessdoct.htm

and we need to create a think tank exactly like the repukes did 15 years ago...one exactly like the "media research center"

www.mediaresearch.org/

[pearl]

12. No Tutor

Only Punish

[One_Life_To_Give]

13. Journalists can't seem to spell, never mind report

When I pick up a paper these days. The part that amazes me most is that these "writers" can't spell and their editors either can't spell as well or can't be bothered. So why should I expect a bunch of people who can't be bothered to run a spell check, will actually work to find the story and report it?