Truth ping
Florida election 2002 taught many of us this lesson.
It became clear early on in the election year that Florida's press was putting out mostly DNC "opinion" - and fake polls, as "news", while ignoring the very real accomplishments, endorsements, and reliable polls - facts - "news" re. Jeb Bush.
It didn't take us long to realize that Gannett Florida, a major Fla. political news source, was not only pro-DNC, but actively anti-Jeb Bush.
We still sent letters to the editors of local papers, phoned local TV news outlets, but then bypassed the press, and found and shared the news with others through the net - homeschoolers, church groups, neighbors, Veterans groups, friendly media - and it worked!
The domestic opponents couldn't monitor our efforts (or control with spin), and still don't know what happened.
But we do.
May and June '03, post embeds, I hounded members of the press, pols - daily phone calls, mass-emails - asking them to please listen to the primary sources and to report the daily good works of the troops. There were daily amazing reports from the primary news sources - those who run and fight the war - humanitarian work, and bad guys removed - neglected daily by our press. Check my homepage, scroll down past news, for earlier CENTCOM links. We can all make the case against our domestic so-called allies in minutes re. their bad reporting, and how they misled the world then - in those early crucial weeks - giving international cowards a chance to pull out promised support in troops and $$$ and emboldening our enemies. There is no defense for the press-pols. They KNEW they weren't reporting the whole truth, and were not supporting the troops on Capitol Hill - parroting the press's misinformation to their own misinformed constituents.
Bypass the press.
Put out the facts.
It takes time...and patience...but it works.
Thank God for FR, fellow Freepers, and freedom-loving allies around the world.