Why do people bother?

[librechik]

30. the Right IS a media machine

if we are going to fight it, it needs to be fought there, not in some imaginary world where knocking on doors or standing by the 100s of thousands + together (--even millions!) in protest has an effect. Like it did back in the 70s when the liberal media had still some small shred of existence, at least in the person of Walter Cronkite.

They will ignore us no matter how many we are, unless we get a microphone like theirs. Which we do not have, despite all the whining about the media being liberal. That is a damned lie. The media is bought owned and paid for by conservatives, since the eighties at least, and we have done nothing to fight them, just pretended they don't exist or aren't all-powerful.

It's not working, as a strategy. And since Citizens United, I doubt we even have a chance to fight them anymore.