Three years ago, I proposed sit-ins & protests at mass media affilliates

[0rganism]

Very few people took me seriously, despite the general agreement that the media whores were largely responsible for the close, ultimately stealable, election of 2000.

I contended that media was the primary source of our political problems, that the blatant whoring for corporate and authoritarian causes was poisoning demcracy. That mass media had become the new civil rights battleground, and deserved to be treated as such. That the consolidated corporate media packaged everything from political prejudice in its primetime TV "news" to outright racism on the AM band. That they would only cover anti-establishment direct action when it began to affect them directly.

So, what do you think of the idea now?

The media whores just devoted two weeks of August to publicizing the Swift Boat Liars, and they're about to bury the vetted matter of bush's 1972 AWOL game in two days. They won't even show 60 Minutes in some parts of the country, except in the wee hours of the morning, because it contains material damaging to the New Caligula. People are dying by the thousands because of their gross negligence and abuse of the public trust.

ARE YOU READY YET? ARE YOU READY TO TAKE IT TO THEM IN PERSON?

[Catfight]

1. I remember sit in's, I say let's bring them back! n/t

[PROGRESSIVE1]

3. Bingo!

:kick::kick::kick::kick::kick::kick::kick::kick::kick::kick::kick::kick::kick::kick::kick::kick::kick::kick::kick::kick::kick::kick::kick::kick::kick::kick::kick::kick::kick::kick::kick::kick::kick::kick::kick::kick::kick::kick::kick::kick::kick::kick::kick::kick::kick::kick::kick::kick::kick::kick::kick::kick::kick::kick::kick::kick::kick::kick::kick::kick::kick::kick::kick::kick::kick::kick::kick::kick::kick::kick::kick::kick::kick::kick::kick::kick::kick::kick::kick::kick::kick::kick::kick::kick::kick::kick::kick::kick::kick::kick::kick::kick::kick::kick::kick::kick::kick::kick::kick::kick::kick::kick::kick::kick::kick::kick::kick::kick::kick::kick::kick::kick::kick::kick::kick::kick::kick::kick::kick::kick::kick::kick::kick::kick::kick::kick::kick::kick::kick::kick::kick::kick::kick::kick::kick::kick::kick::kick::kick::kick::kick::kick::kick::kick::kick::kick::kick::kick::kick::kick::kick::kick::kick::kick::kick::kick::kick::kick::kick::kick::kick::kick::kick::kick::kick::kick::kick::kick::kick:

[rfkrocks]

2. I like boycotting the news media-their purse is where to hurt them

I think-but your arguments are right on!-the media once hoped by the founders to be a foil of power now is a tool for power-good post

[cthrumatrix]

4. you are absolutely correct... corporatism is ruining OUR country and we

let them...they laugh at us ...manipulate us...divide us. All for power greed and their agenda.

4 more years of a "uncontrolled" bush is 4 more than I want. Enougg of this bs they pull everyday on the americans.

[nothingshocksmeanymore]

5. I agree wholeheartedly

[maryallen]

7. Ding! Ding! Ding!

You're 100% correct.

[MrPrax]

6. Great Idea...you invented?

OK...whoever invented...it's still great because I vaguely re-call a friend making the point that an organized large demo in front of a news station or network HQ would HAVE to be eventually reported on, if not by them, then their rivals

And if they don't, the demonstrators would prove their point...the Media ignores 'news' that doesn't feel fit it's agenda...

Sorta damn if they do, damned if they don't.

It becomes a form of 'ironic denial' for the people watching the same news porgram, as that news program presents footage and an 'voiceover' of people like them being critical of what they are reporting...and by that same token, the viewers are introduced to a 'critical moment'

If anything it bugs the hell out of the corporate owners, pisses off so-called 'professional' journalists who have to carry the can for their corp. paymasters, makes advertisers nervous and shareholders' fret...

[0rganism]

9. I don't know if I "invented" it, but I sure as hell proposed it

Ever since I saw Chomsky and Herman's "Manufacturing Consent" about ten years ago, the media imbalance has weighed heavily on my mind. It bugged the hell out of me, the way protestors were always marginalized, the way dissent was crushed by the very conduit that should make it available. After the Goring of 2000, I lost my complacency, and started talking direct action. At the time, people weren't ready for it, thought there were ways to change it from within the system. Very few people were ready to put their bodies on the line to change the newsmedia.

Well, I saw thousands of people protest Fox News Channel in NYC last week. Maybe we're ready now.

[zeemike]

8. It will take something like that to bring change

[susanna]

10. I didn't laugh...

I thought it was a great idea then and now.

[anarchy1999]

11. We are doing it in Dallas, every Friday afternoon in front of Belo

Headquarters in Ferris Park through September. We've been protesting Halliburton's Headquarters every Friday since April 15th.

If you know anyone in the Dallas Area invite them to come and to join us. We need all the help we can get. Our favorite bunch of RW'ers are showing up every time and being incredibly disruptive and hateful, but we've all hung in there.

You are correct, we should have been doing this a long time ago!

www.dallaspeacecenter.org