I wrote this diary over one month ago. Nothing has changed except the problems we are facing as citizens of the world are getting worse. We have NO chance of breaking through to new solutions as long as our status quo media are allowed to continue their endless drivel. For me this has gone well past the scope of this first diary on the subject, included below.
Over the past month, as we have read here and elsewhere, climate damage is more severe than even Al Gore predicted it would me. Soldiers and Iraqi civilians keep dying for a war we now conclusively know is about oil and worse, American imperialism. The dollar is still in the tank and the next shoe to drop will be in January and it is breathtaking in its scale.
In the spirit I say NO MORE. IF WE DO NOT GET OUR VOICES HEARD TO THE MEDIA AND I MEAN NOW WE ARE NOT PART OF THE SOLUTION.
Following this first list is a much more comprehensive list of to dos
breathingstill :: It’s Time for US to Clamp Down On The Media
In his 35 minute speech Obama was more honest in confronting the fact that racism is in our past and our present but that it has no place in our future as we stare down the problems facing this country. He named them. We all know what they are.
And what has the media done in response? The same media that DID NOT REPORT ON THE FINANCIAL CRISIS UNTIL IT SEEMED SAFE TO DO SO – a clear example of state censorship – they are busy pounding away at meaningless drivel about Wright in an attempt to garner ratings while smearing this man – a great man.
I say it time to tell them to stop.
In my experience and by now you all know I’ve had a lot of media experience – there is but one thing and only one thing that works and works well.
CALL YOUR CABLE OPERATOR.
TELL YOUR CABLE OPERATOR YOU ARE DROPPING THIER SERVICE COMPLETELY IF CABLE NETWORKS SUCH AS FOX AND CNN CONTINUE TO REPORT A STORY THAT IS NOT RELEVANT TO THIS ELECTION
TELL YOU CABLE OPERATOR YOU ARE GIVING THEM 24 HOURS TO GET THOSE TAPES OF WRIGHT SCREAMING OFF THE AIR OR YOU ARE DROPPING THEM AND NEVER COMING BACK
Each of us is worth a minimum of $3000 – that is right – three thousand dollars a year – to your cable operator. I don’t need to know what your bill is. This number is based upon different metrics. But it is a real number.
With the consolidation in the industry most of us are either Conmcast, Time Warner – they own 60% of the industry. So this time consolidation works in our favor.
50 calls is the magic number to trigger fear and cause a supervisor in customer service to alert someone in the Programming department that a ‘serious event’ is taking place. Wh