Reply #95: Similar ideas

[scottxyz]

Here's some stuff I posted around the same time as Arendt - on a different website - in a similar vein. We are on a very similar track!

This is in the Haloscan Comments section at http://atrios.blogspot.com/2004_02_15_atrios_archive.html#107707623004951249

And while we're talking about contributing - let's remember that much of corporate, centralized media is the ENEMY, and not throw too much money their way.

If you have $10,000 to spend, maybe you should stipulate that it NOT go to your local Clear Channel affiliate.

There may be BETTER ways to get a message out - bypassing corporate one-way centralized media:

The main reason the tide is finally turning in favor of the Democrats is because the internet finally allowed messages to get out without being censored by the fatcat corporate media.

One big problem now is that not everyone sits and reads blogs - hence we donate, airtime on TV is purchased, and maybe CBS will even run an ad selected by thousands of people in MoveOn.org. (Well, at least CNN ran it.)

How about some alternative media? If we have hundreds of thousands or millinos to spend, how about setting aside a portion to be spent on getting the blog messages out to the non-internet users out there?

Examples:

(1) Take a bunch of blogs and websites, vote on the best articles, get approval to reprint - AND PRINT THEM ON PAPER AND PUT TOGETHER A WEEKLY (or daily) NATIONAL LIBERAL PAPER. Then we wouldn't have to sit around "waiting" for WaPo or the NYT to run with stories we've been covering for weeks on the web.

(2) Do the same thing with blog/web news and opinion pieces - on go straight to video. Why not just put all the MoveOn.org videos on a tape, make a few million copies, and drop them around the neighborhood?

This battle is so EASY to fight on the web - bacause the web encourages two-way, decentralized, uncensored communication. Our stumbling block has been moving the message OFF the web - because we WAIT for the corporate media to pick the stories up. WE CAN GO AROUND THEM. A "best of the web" weekly/daily newspaper/video would be a BLOCKBUSTER in this country - people would be eating it up!