Why do people post in multiple forums?

[libbyliberal]

13. ... to reach more people and consciousness-raise

I just had open salon close on me and lost a platform and pretty wide audience. I am still driven by a need to pass along the truth as I find it from the alternate websites that is so very often so very opposite to the propaganda on mainstream media.

I often on open salon felt like Paul Revere trying to bring the REAL truth to counterpoint the corporate and war-mongering propaganda that also finds its way on MSNBC which cherry-picks the truth according to party loyalty cronyism, sadly.

I often felt like my arms too short to box with mainstream media to paraphrase. But one kind and talented contributor on open salon told me that I may not be changing lots of minds but my communications were definitely opening some. To present the basic truth that there were OTHER perspectives that actually existed is an important contribution, along with supplying facts against the "truthiness" of "my country or party right or wrongness." Omission is a terrible mainstream media crime. Faux-Lesser evilism is the crime I accuse the Dem Party of perpetrating.

RIP open salon. I will miss that active community that commented and blogged. I will miss both the validating and invalidating feedback. There was a liveliness there. More than ego-feeding for us bloggers, though that was there, too. And the ego-deflating beat-ups and pile-ons that occasionally happened, too. It was the citizenry in a representational local dimension. People there being introduced by some of us to what our canned mainstream communication could not give. It was also a place to be real and creative, political some days, poetic and apolitical or locally political on others. It is a major loss for hundreds of us now.

I am exploring and now cyber-travelling. I still have the need to communicate. Will I be comfortable here? I hope so, but will know soon enough.

best, libby