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Been doing just that for the past 3 1/2 years. Every FReeper ought to be doing something similar - reporting on city councils, school boards, county commissions, etc.
All politics is local.
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From another thread...
“relentlessly expose, ridicule, deride, mock and publicly shame arrogant progressives in a manner that, for the first time in our adult lifetimes, communicates this one undeniable founding truth: America was never supposed to be this way.”
This past Christmas I spent time with my brother who introduced me to Jon Stewart. He has several choice Jon Stewart episodes recorded that he showed me.
This guy, Jon Stewart, is extremely talented at doing to conservatives precisely what the quoted paragraph above correctly opines we should be doing to “progressives”. He deftly and mercilessly roasts the conservative’s tactics in a way that is hilarious and totally believable to the less informed viewer. He is an extremely talented entertainer and comedian behaving as a news reporter and political commentator and is enormously engaging.
As I was watching him, I was thinking that “This guy is REALLY getting his leftist message across” and that we (conservatism) have nothing even close to this guy.
I don’t have a clue how conservatives could possibly counter the effectiveness of Jon Stewart’s spew, the truth is obviously not working, at least all by itself it isn’t.
If an extremely talented conservative counterpart were to emerge, he (or she) certainly wouldn’t be granted the venue that Stewart enjoys.
There are bound to be extremely witty conservative performers out there who could balance this guy and this genre to some degree, and surely there are producers that would see the profit in a conservative counterpoint? Maybe in India?
This guy is so brilliant!
The next several years will see some very interesting changes in communications. These changes will have an enormous effect on the way people get information.
I foresee the near total destruction of broadcast TV within 10 years.
Traditional cell and data providers are going to collapse when faced with free providers of the same services (supported by ad revenue) .. GOOGLE et al.... GOOGLE bought up all that dark fiber for a reason.
What we are approaching is a level playing field with the left when MSM collapses. They will attempt to limit the danger by passing laws allowing them to control the internet. Soon ALL content will be delivered as data on the net. No DVD or traditional book sales, no broadcast media, no newspapers, no radio as we know it today.
Unless the progressives (communists) gain total control of the net then anyone with talent and brains will wield the same power a major media outlet does today.
In the early 2020’s and perhaps even sooner the big thing will be augmented reality tech. It will take the form of a device worn like sunglasses and will be connected to the network for free (ad revenue) No tablets, no desktop PCs, no cellphones. Augmented reality devices are where the battle for the future will be waged....within 10 years my friend...we should prepare.
It will be incredibly important to maintain access to an uncensored network, encryption, anonymity and unencumbered use of 3D printing tech! These four things are what the progressives will be targeting. They are at least as important as the 2nd amendment right to arms. Our battle is to keep access to these four rights. The technology is accelerating at a exponential rate now and things will be very different in just a few short years.
I can’t find fault with the line of thought, but I think you are missing a piece of the propaganda machine. Network programming is an integral part of it.
The average FReeper, I suspect, does not spend much time watching junk like “Glee”, “Modern Family”, and “The Today Show”, but there are millions of citizens who do. Through such programs, the left relentlessly promotes its ideology.
First stop paying the media henchmen for Obama and stop promoting the progressives message with your money.
It’s time to cut your cable and satellite TV.
I find the article to be confusing because of the terminology, which is not very clear and not very accessible.
I don’t think there is any way of challenging the mainstream media as long as academia and schooling in general is so extremely leftist.
a recent reply to some post here on FR pointed out that Republicans/conservatives had a chance to elect conservative members of university boards in MN but ignored them, so these positions were all easily obtained by extreme leftists.
Perhaps there is where we should be lookng.
The 'value' of buying the New York Times is that it's the paper of record. Or as the slogan goes, 'it's not news until the New York Times says it's news' - or some such thing... If Trump were to buy the Times, then fire every top person and replace them with conservative 'think tank types' ( and YEAH that includes Greenfield, Styne, Sowell, Rush, Hannity, etc etc) and a bunch of first rate rewrite guys - they could pull this off.
What appears in the New York Times today - appears in your local paper a few days or weeks later. The Times tells us 'what's news'. Other papers don't have the staff to do a lot of original work - OR THE CONTACTS.
That's key. Contacts.
It's why Republican who say something bad about a fellow Republican get space. And why a democrat who does the same - speaks badly of his own party - is shamed. Papers run on black books -contacts top editors have - and those 'friends' open up if they basically like what's being written. Big scores - coin of the realm is information.
Editors pride themselves on knowing that everyone has an angle for the information given but they've decided they're 'oh so smart' and can out smart the folks feeding them. They can't. Insiders see the press as puffed up fools... but that's another story. (Oh -and those big police raids where the drug busts are in the millions and millions? That's not street level police work either - it's one gang calling in to rat out another gang in order to gain influence.) Cops to the same thing editors do - they 'balance out' the competing 'desires'...
My point is it could work. If Trump had what it took to buy the Times and fire 'the culture' he could do it. Lower level papers would flounder... and that would give him the opportunity to have major impact... It could be done.
Ping!
A culture war is a shouting match. It's not so much a war of ideas as a war of slogans that are embedded in everything. The left has too much top-down control to be directly beaten at that level. It can be challenged and occasionally humiliated, as Breitbart had done, but it still remains in place. If the left is going to be beaten, it will be from the bottom up by empowering the people who want to fight, rather than just building more expensive operations while ignoring the ground game.
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Interesting statements, but right for the wrong reasons. Romney's campaign wasn't interested in fighting. If it had been, Benghazi would have been hammered through Obama's rhetoric from the day after it happened, as it was one of too few points of significant difference between the candidates and the ONLY fresh one at election time.
Unfortunately, connecting with its base is anathema to the GOP-E. So while it's a great idea, Mr. Greenfield, I humbly suggest that you not hold your breath.