Reply #90: Effective communication is hard when the playing field is so uneven [View All]

[oxbow]

I agree with you some, but we're up against so much already that I don't think communicating is so much the problem. The GOP spin machine has had 30+ years to align and grow itself. Direct mail, conservative hate radio, Fox News and the incessant playing of the refs that we refer to as 'the myth of the liberal media' are what we are up against. And this entire apparatus is integrated so well with the GOP power brokers in Washington that it's downright scary.

As for our side, we have Air America and the bloggers (to an extent), both of which have a tenuous relationshiop with the Democratic power structure, at best. Simply put, they are in a much better position to get their message out because they have been doing this for much longer. Hell, they spend ten times more than us on think tanks alone, which is where the talking points and the TV news guests are rushed from everytime they need to do damage control. Until our leadership realizes how stacked the deck is against us in the media, and begins spending massive amounts of money to play catchup, it is a losing game. Just my .02