EXPOSED: Astroturfed Teabaggers PAID TO TROLL liberals online to enforce corporate propaganda

[Ian David]

by MinistryOfTruth
Wed Dec 29, 2010 at 09:50:53 AM PST

There is a reason Markos Moulitsas is not allowed on MSNBC but Pat Buchanan is.

This is from an amazing article on the corporatist astroturfing ingrained in our media and politics that I found on Alternet. It details current Chinese and Western Neo-Corporate paid astroturfed trolling online.

For his film (Astro)Turf Wars, Taki Oldham secretly recorded a training session organized by a rightwing libertarian group called American Majority. The trainer, Austin James, was instructing Tea Party members on how to "manipulate the medium". This is what he told them:

More:
http://www.dailykos.com/storyonly/2010/12/29/932182/-EXPOSED:-Astroturfed-Teabaggers-PAID-TO-TROLL-liberals-online-to-enforce-corporate-propaganda


See also:

Tea Party Exposed in new documentary: {Astro} Turf Wars
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=385x511579

[FreakinDJ]

1. Really well written piece - but just a little too much truth

It almost seems like the Corporate Owned Media doesn't want to even discuss differing opinions. Deficit cuts are on the table. Job creation is not. Ending the war is NOT on the table, cutting social security is. When the only Republicans on tv are insane and the only Democrats on tv are moderate, republican leaning corporatists, something is very, very wrong. The game is rigged.

Liberals are shunned, conservatives and moderates are fawned over. The country inches right no matter who wins the elections.

Should this astroturfing surprise you? Of course it should not. Our entire media is astroturfed bullshit and corporate propaganda packaged as "The News". This should surprise no one. As people who are fighting against corporatism, greed and corruption, we should call it out every time we see it. Who is paying for their speech? Because if it is paid speech, it is NOT free.

[Obamanaut]

2. Same subject line at this thread ->

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=439&topic_id=88100&mesg_id=88100