First - take back the media ....

[annxburns]

I am so damn depressed today. It is abundantly clear to me that the Drudge following, scandal-making, corporate whorish media is SO DEEP in Bush's pocket that Kerry/Edwards is NEVER going to get a fair shake. Never. The cable news has just been uniformly awful. They are trying so hard to make Teresa Heinz-Kerry a new she-devil. They are trying so hard to protect Bush. It wouldn't surprise me, in the face of all this negative coverage, if Kerry and Edwards get NO bounce out of this convention. I am sorry to be a downer, but I think we have to prepare for that to happen and not let it faze us ...

Even, now how can Bush be at 50%? How? The media, that's how. Face it, most Americans aren't political junkies like I am. They just flip through the news and absorb the surface stuff. And all they will absorb is RW talking points ....

Al Gore is right. We have to take it back. Or our message will never get through. So GO AL! Get that network - we will need it no matter what happens.

[cprise]

1. I am very interested

...in hearing how a Gore-owned TV station is going to look after the interests of average Americans, and do it without being universally branded as being more nakedly political than even Fox.

[AndyTiedye]

2. Because They Will Report What Faux Doesn't

We once had a mix of fiercly-partisan liberal media and fiercly-partisan conservative media.
If you followed both, you could get some idea of what was going on.

Now the liberal media is long gone, a victim of many hostile takeovers
by the reich wing,
who now gets to decide what gets reported and what doesn't.

[cprise]

3. How do you know what they will do?

If your answer comes in the form of a private corporation, then eventually they must follow the money-- or else. The corporate media acts the way it does today because investors demand it. Anyway, Gore has stated that he would not do anything in a media venture outside of 'legitimate' corporate structure, with him only serving on the board in an advisory role; Al Gore is a good boy.

The news culture will not improve in the long run without government intervention. That's how we got campaign finance reform-- through our representatives.