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Edited on Mon Jan-31-05 07:40 PM by sfexpat2000
and one night got so worked up, wrote this.
It's too abstract, needs to be shorter and sexier. How bout some of you guys help me get it right. Then, I'll distribute it. Whaddaya think? Beth
Media Consumer's Declaration of Independence
I will not agree to have my perception, consent or indifference shaped by a media beholden to corporate and political interests. Their terms of debate may be paid for in coin of the realm but they can not dictate my operative metaphors, concerns or opinions.
I will assemble my own front page and it will be clean of rumor, innuendo or cya, the free pass, the weak kneed softening or the billious suger glazing.
In my search for real news, I will not accept "story" in place of "fact". Particularly when paid for by corporate conglomerates who need my complicity to enslave the electorate either through their wallets or through their complacency.
I have a right to see, hear and read alternative viewpoints and also the duty to reject the marginalization, silencing or exclusion of the same. The Constitution holds no requirement for me to be treasonous to my own common sense or to so betray my fellow citizens.
I will not contribute in any way to the sustenance of any newspaper, broadcast network, cable station or radio program that seeks to inpinge upon, lobby or shape the political opinion of the American public. If "journalism" is no longer an operatice term, then neither is "audience" "consumer", "fan" or "contributor".
I will personally seek to hold accountable ANY elected official or their representative that uses the mass media to pedal political positions. Say that three times, I really mean it.
I will not encourage anyone to believe, trust. let alone attend to a media that has lost all credibility with the public in their effort to serve the collusion of the federal government and the private sector. Instead, I will be the media and I will forge any network needed to ensure that no one need depend upon a corrupted institution to provide the news of the day.
And although I miss my radio programs, my newspaper and my favorite anchor, I miss the First Amendment more. I will not be an instrument of denying it to others.
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