Be the media 2008
It's critical that the media — and especially the news media — be
reinvented to reflect the interests and needs of the majority of the people.
Old ideas, strategies, and alliances need to be evaluated, too. But foremost among the
tasks before the Greens and Democrats is to develop a more compelling outreach
to the American people. While the corporate lobbyists coopt Christian piety,
gay bashing, and fear, a new intensity is needed to uphold the principles of
Jefferson, Lincoln, and Paine. The fundamental Enlightenment values of liberty
and intellectual freedom are being torn down by a regime of power-lust, cynical men who
will wrap themselves in the flag and hide behind a cross while they knowingly
betray the interests of the American people. These politicians derive their power by
serving corporate paymasters who are quite pleased with this pageantry of
patriotism and piety because it has allowed unprecedented control of government
by corporate lobbyists. This state of affairs, however, goes almost completely
unmentioned in the media bubble created by commercial broadcasting. This is
why reform of government must begin with reform of media institutions. The
more independent the better.
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