Will a "SCARLET LETTER" Campaign Against the MSM Work ?

[Vinnie From Indy]

The time has come to start revealing and discussing the actual people making the nitty gritty, tactical decisions at the cable news networks. These are the people that edit the film, produce the show, write the copy and decide what the story selection will be on a daily basis. Granted, they are doing their master's bidding, but that does not exonerate them from carrying out the daily assault on truth in America. They wake up everyday and decide how to craft the messages most favorable to ShrubCo. and kill the stories that could potentially damage the Boy King. They are the editors, producers and senior management at CNN, MSNBC, FOX. These people need to be dragged into the light and held up for examination. They should not be able to destroy our country in anonymity. The need to wonder when they sit down at a fancy restaurant if the waiter or bus boy or bartender knows they are the ones helping to kill freedom, truth and opportunity in America. They need to wonder when they get on a plane if the guy next to them is a DUer who will confront them on their whoring for ShrubCo. These people need to be confronted on their decision to be a part of this assault on America. The difference between these guys and the NAZI death camp guards is that these modern enablers at the networks choose to be there and they choose to push lies, deceit and propaganda. Ultimately, we need to make them think about trading a paycheck for their soul and the soul of America. This will only happen if people know who they are and confront them to explain themselves.

The Stepford anchors and other public figures that represent these propaganda mills are inoculated by their huge salaries and they are willing to suffer the slings and arrows of outraged citizens as long as the gravy train stays on track. The rank and file might not be so willing to take the heat for so little pay.

[blm]

1. I've said for years. it's the producers and writers who have been planted.

That way the anchors and readers can be labeled "liberals" for whatever tenuous thread to the left may be in their past.

[Vinnie From Indy]

2. These people need to be confronted. n/t

[blondeatlast]

13. Plenty of RW think tank "grads" in those positions, too.

David Brock went into how it's done in "The Republican Noise Machine."

[mwb970]

3. Well, do we know exactly who they are? n/t

[Vinnie From Indy]

4. We need to find out somehow.

I would venture that there are at least a few people at these MSM outlets that are also DUers. Some of these people have to know exactly who is making the daily decsions at these outlets.

[calimary]

7. We need to have a Rogues' Gallery. PHOTOS.

Their faces and names and job titles need to be out front, much more. Sometimes the websites for these outlets have bios with photos. Or maybe some of us could call and ask for one...

Shine a light. These people are working in anonymity. But bloggers "got" Eason Jordan of CNN, did they not? Perhaps we need to turn up the heat - because at CNN anyway, they were covering this quite a bit. Obviously it got their attention. Maybe the operative phrase is "Hey, 'Mainstream Media Mucky-Muck, WHO'S NEXT?"

Also: be on the lookout, locally, if your city or town has a press club or press association. Here in L.A., for example, there's RTNA (Radio TV News Association). Nationally, there's RTNDA (Radio TV News Directors Association). The local ones often have some speaker who's some news VIP. The larger groups have conventions where you have entire panels of news VIPs. If you know where they are, it's possible to attend, maybe sit in the back room or somehow get credentialed as a student or (a Jeff Gannon? I doubt these people especially at the local end or the lower end of the food chain will be paying much attention. Denial. They're pretty sure it'd ever happen to THEM). They also from time to time have cocktail parties when these people come to town. ESPECIALLY in a smaller market - if one of these guys is in town, he/she is treated like absolute ROYALTY, because BELIEVE ME, EVERY local TV anchor/producer/news director aspires to move up the ladder and wants desperately to cozy up to these people. If there's any chance of getting near a visiting dignitary, they'll jump at it.

I'd suggest going on some of these organizations' websites and check their events schedules. Or keep an eye peeled for the NAB (National Association of Broadcasters) to have a convention or something in your city.

But, GOD I love the idea of all the waiters and hotel doormen and the guy next to 'em on the airplane - all buttonholing these people and making their lives miserable. WE do not have White House clout. BUT we DO have viewership, demographics, the discretionary income that advertisers lust after, and the sales departments of all these news operations also slobber over. We have the BOTTOM LINE advantage. If these people don't have viewers/listeners/readers, they're toast.

[blondeatlast]

14. Shouldn't be too hard to find out.

As I said, alumnus from the TAX-EXEMPT RW think tanks.

[DemocracyInaction]

5. Vinni--was thinking something similar this a.m.--but on a larger scale

There are many areas that the DNC (for example) needs to attack to get this party headed toward some victories. BUT, to me, the #1 is the need to attack (and I said ATTACK) the media because it IS the whole core of it all. Dean and Dems need to start constantly using the rhetoric that a) the various media outlets are corporations and b) they have been demonizing Dems, promoting and covering up for Repubs in order to line their big corporate pockets. We aren't going to get anywhere until the American people look at the news and doubt they are being told the truth....when they look at it and say back to the screen "yeah, what's in it for you and what's it going to take out of my ass this time". It would also force them to start cleaning up the act a bit. Obviously the news media wouldn't report any of this unless the Dems spew it so many times that it gets out there just like the "liberal" media bullshit that the Repubs manufactured. We have to kick the shit out of the media for the next four years.

[Vinnie From Indy]

6. Amen Brother ! Well said! n/t

[CitySky]

8. YES - nail the CORPORATIONS

It's the CORPORATE Media I'm worried about. I don't dislike them because they're "mainstream." IMO calling them that just makes me sound like a snotty elitist, like i'll only drink specialty coffees and wear micro-marketed name-brand jeans and listen to obscure music that you just wouldn't understand. No. I dislike the CM because they promote the agenda of large corporations - which exist solely to profit shareholders, not to better society as a whole.

The Corporate Media does not achieve the function of a free press in a democracy - to foster a vibrant marketplace of ideas - because it carefully strains out any "ideas" or even facts that may offend the corporate owners, shareholders, or advertisers.

This is our problem.

[Vinnie From Indy]

9. I like the phrase Coprorate Media more as well.

I need to remember to keep using that phrase instead of "mainstream".

[CitySky]

10. Thanks.

I just saw someone use "CM" as shorthand in another thread. Next step is the ears of our non-DU friends...

[Vinnie From Indy]

11. You are most welcome! n/t

[EVDebs]

12. Its name is OPERATION MOCKINGBIRD and MSM will not name it

'Operation Mockingbird: CIA Media Manipulation'
http://www.prisonplanet.com/analysis_louise_01_03_03_mockingbird.html

reveals how long this media-whoring has been going on. Even as recently as the 2000 election Counterpunch wrote about "CNN and PsyOps" but nobody raised an eyebrow ! www.counterpunch.org/cnnpsyops.html

Now the CNN weblog girls (on Judy Woodruff's political puffery hour) are --gasp-- reporting on how weblogs are having to do MSM's work for them. I wonder why that's the case, don't you ? Maybe because MSM is in on the 'take' and won't do its job.

The Gannon/Guckert story will not blow away anytime soon on these blogs IF AND ONLY IF you guys out there are aware of what the CIA has been pulling.

It gets really interesting should Gannon/Guckert and any of the others in on the deal start doing a Jack Ruby and leaving 'hidden messages' if you know what I mean.

The jig is up.

[Vinnie From Indy]

15. Great Links! Thanks!! n/t