An inspiration I got regarding our propaganda M$M outlets. Yesterday, it started when

[Cleita]

California Assembly Majority Leader Karen Blass blamed the impasse about the California budget crisis on politicians who won't compromise and vote for it because they are afraid of losing their upcoming reelections. It struck me that the same thing is probably going on in Congress in Washington. When asked why, she blamed it on talk radio who was influencing the voters to vote against their interests. I'm sure she was referring to Rush/Sean/Billo. Then there was a blurb on another program about how all these Christian programs get on the air. They buy the hour from the stations involved if they don't have their own stations to broadcast on. It's not like the station programmers are penciling them into the schedule because they get good ratings. Finally, I remembered back in the days before radio and TV became propaganda outlets for the RNC, the government used to issue civil service films about many subjects. A lot of them were wrong, like the "duck and cover" films about a nuclear attack or "Reefer Madness" about the horrors of marijuana but they were played at meetings, in the classroom and sometimes in movie theaters to reach the masses. They were the official government position on what they were trying to accomplish. Finally, there is a lot of talk about the fairness doctrine. Maybe we don't need it. This was the inspiration I got.

Why doesn't the Obama government get commercials made on a regular basis by professional ad people to get his message out? They should make a point of correcting the erroneous memes being put out by the RW propagandists. They don't have to mention them by name or even say they are correcting an error, just tell the truth about a matter and put the seal of whatever office it comes from like the Attorney Generals Office, or the Secretary of Education or the Secretary of Defense, etc. They could be entertaining and in a cartoon format thirty seconds to a minute long. A lot of our DUers like Symbolman could probably get jobs doing them. I know he needs work. The commercials can be played in prime time in national outlets. If Humana can run ads all day long and on various channels for their Senior Medicare Advantage program, which is I'm sure paid from our Medicare dollars, I think the Obama government can find the money to do this as well. I can't see where there would be a conflict as long as the ads are truthful, fact checked and don't mention names. I know, I can hear the other side screaming about propaganda, but they get free propaganda on all the broadcast channels, cable channels, 90% of the radio stations and most of the print media. How, awful would it be to get the truthful message out, without running over anyone's First Amendment rights. I think the Obama administration has a duty to get the truth out to the American people. It's time to start teaching people what this country stands for again, since the schools aren't doing it anymore.

Now I really feel that this idea I got was inspired from the spirit world. Is anyone else getting something similar?

[Celebration]

1. Maybe the Democratic Party should buy ads

Or some group like Moveon.org..... I don't know that it should be connected with Obama, though. I'm not sure who would pay for it, and I think the President should be above all that. His public relations staff needs to powwow and figure out some good strategies.

[Cleita]

2. No that would be seen as propaganda if from the DNC. It needs to be a branch of

the government that does it. The government would have to budget money for it but it would be a steady amount, not like a private foundation like Move On having to beg for it. If Move On could have done it, they would have by now.

The government agency that would do this needs to correct the misinformation being spread, in prime time and very often. For instance the newest misinformation being spread is that the New Deal didn't work. Talk to any one of my generation or before and we know it did work, but hardly anyone is stopping this misinformation from being spread. This is where we need to air commercials telling how it worked, briefly but with statistics and sources to prove it until that RW meme goes away. It will have to be done as a regular item between programs. Maybe once a month, they could buy an hour on prime time and more thoroughly go into what the government is actually doing or the real history of what was done in the past.

[Celebration]

4. this would NOT WORK IMHO.

I don't want some sort of government propaganda office spending tax dollars for paid ads.

How would we have felt if our tax dollars were spent for advertising to support the Bush agenda?

[Cleita]

5. I wouldn't want a government propaganda office or Ministry of Truth either.

Government already prints up thousands of pamphlets on everything and the information is considered accurate and factual enough to be used by academics and other professional groups but the general public doesn't have a clue of how to access this. Government also has a whole movie industry that makes educational films about many things. I didn't know that until I was talking to an actor friend of mine and he told me he had worked as an actor in Washington D. C. for many years in many of these films. He was actually able to make a living, something that he couldn't do when he moved to Southern California to try to make a break in the entertainment industry. So we already have an agency of the government who produces these pamphlets and films, but they are not accessible to the general public who doesn't know how to access them.

There would have to be laws so that there couldn't be a Bush agenda or an Obama agenda. It's really more about putting out what is already there, in the way of history and politics that you can only get on C-SPAN. How many Rush Limbaugh listeners watch C-SPAN to get accurate information? Very few. Yet, they would be listening to commercials or watching them on TV while watching a game. My rules would be that anything that is cleared for showing in the mainstream media would have to be fact checked by three different independent fact checkers for accuracy and non-bias. It would be a matter of educating the public about the history of this country by respected experts and educators, about our Constitution and government, again by respected experts and educators and explanations of what the government is doing on a daily basis again by respected experts and educators from all sides of the political spectrum.

Now it would be nice if it could be done in the private sector, but unfortunately, like fire and police departments, only the government has the revenue and reach to be able to make in work in a consistent and public way.

Also, I didn't put this post up to argue with anyone or I would put it up in GD. I do thank you though for making me explain more thoroughly what I meant. I put it up to find out if other of our intuitive DUers were getting messages from their guides about this before I put it up in GD.

[Why Syzygy]

6. Cleita ..

what's the name of the government office that distributes those pamphlets? I used to order them all the time.

[Cleita]

7. I don't remember. All I remember is that there is an address you can order

a catalogue that lists all the pamphlets. It occurs to me that they might be on line now. I'll try a Google and see what I come up with.

On edit: I found this link: http://www.usa.gov/Topics/Reference_Shelf/Publications.shtml

[Fire Walk With Me]

3. That is a wonderful idea. Television has fallen so very far yet could be turned back into a positive

format.