I got the link from another DUer's post but I believe that this is the most important idea we have to grapple with.
It makes no difference what we do or what our leaders have to say if it doesn't get through to average ms. and mr. American.
And all we have accomplished can be negated instantly by one very well timed campaign phrase like "the Godless left" repeated over and over without anyone countering it in the same media outlet.
In my area, Bakersfield, CA you will never hear our point of view on the radio during drive time but every English speaking radio station has the rightwing talking points on over and over again.
Folks we have to take back the media or everything else we do is just like pissing in the wind.
consortiumnews.com
The Left's Media Miscalculation
By Robert Parry
April 29, 2005
To understand how the United States got into today’s political predicament – where even fundamental principles like the separation of church and state are under attack – one has to look back at strategic choices made by the Right and the Left three decades ago.
In the mid-1970s, after the U.S. defeat in Vietnam and President Richard Nixon’s resignation over the Watergate scandal, American progressives held the upper-hand on media. Not only had the mainstream press exposed Nixon’s dirty tricks and published the Pentagon Papers secrets of the Vietnam War, but a vibrant leftist “underground” press informed and inspired a new generation of citizens.
http://www.consortiumnews.com/Print/2005/042805.html