I have been mulling about this post for weeks and simply can't write a good one, so I will just say it in a sloppy way. It is true that Obama, Reid, and the leadersheep is blowing health care reform, but the press has created a toxic environment. The press is inciting violence for crying out loud.
I am glad that Glen Beck is losing his advertisers, kudos to the bloggers behind that. We need to step up these kinds of efforts. We need to start making formal complaints to the FCC. We need to step up pressure on advertisers. We need to start contacting institutional investors and fund managers and ask them if investing in lies and inciting violence is consistent with their fiduciary responsibility.
We need to start exacting a price for the egregious editorial misconduct this country has been subjected to.
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I agree but...
I agree about the media being the long term problem, but let's face it, the reason the average Democrat got snookered by the Obama crowd is because the "A-listers" made a point of repeating media lies in order to get their moral munchkin nominated.
This election was a chance to turn back the right wing forces and instead we were offered a new wrapper for Bush policies, even now A-listers are deleting comments of people who are pointing out their complicity in handing us Obama, just as they deleted comments pointing out their complicity in selling liberal talking points for the invasion of IRAQ.
I remember Josh Marshall lecturing that the IRAQ war was the answer, just as Marshall sniped Obama's opponents while he claimed neutrality...until the evidence became overwhelming...then and only then did he come clean with his personal bias...even though his ties to the campaign went back two years prior.
the media is a given...
....and changing the way the media behaves is a very long term project.
In the interim, its essential to use the medium and exploit its flaws to the fullest. Unfortunately, the A (for Access) listers all bought into the myth that Obama was committed to health care reform -- and treated single payer advocates as pariahs.
Now that its becoming obvious that Obama has punked them AGAIN, they're in full "reinvention" mode, trying to create a grassroots movement behind the "public option" in order to restore their tattered credibility. Jane Hamsher should be especially ashamed of herself -- she's trying to make herself a player by raising funds to "thank" the supporters of the public option after Donna Edwards made it clear that her vote was dependent upon Jane getting some cold hard cash in her campaign coffers.
In fact, progressives were having great success with raising money to put up "negative" ads against the parasite-owned Blue Dogs -- but when Rahm had a hissy fit about that approach, Jane suddenly fell into line....
I agree
with everything in your comment.
after Donna Edwards made it clear that her vote was dependent upon Jane getting some cold hard cash in her campaign coffers.
Tell more, is there any kind of a link? I don't follow FDL (and actually don't spend much time at any of the other progblogs ...) It wouldn't suprise me. As I mentioned in a comment last night, Donna Edwards was a "community organizer" who made noise on behalf of residents against a very large development project, National Harbor. After she won her election, she bought a condo there.
FWIW, she has her share of enemies in MD. I don't live in her district, but it is nearby.
jane's narrative...
This is from Jane's narrative
What is most personally annoying to me is Jane's consistent representation that this was all about the blogs raising money. Its not -- the fundraising was anemic until Jane started showing up all over MSNBC, talking up her beg-a-thon.
In other words, this isn't new media at work, its new media exploiting access to old media.
new media exploiting access to old media
heh.
it's not a bad method [it's a very good one, in fact], leveraging your work like that, and jane is to be commended for her savvy and skill in doing so.
sadly, it's a lost opportunity. can you imagine the boost it would have given blogging if she'd been pushing single payer and been even half this successful?
not to mention the boost that real reform would have gotten if everybody on the left who shows up on popular tv were talking only and always about single payer.
Personally, I would stop
calling some 'A list blogs'. DK was the first blog that I ever posted too ....in 2003 I think. The bigger it got the more infantile the responses were. Same with many of the others that have the A list title and a zillion hits.
Does A list mean that they have a lot of hits? That they make a a lot of revenue? That some contributors are asked to write for the MSM? That they appear on television? What and who makes them A list blogs?
I have my own little test about who I read. Does the blog daddy or mommy have a real job other than trying to use a blog for making a living. I know it sounds prejudice but...hey it works for me.
In re the press. It has died with corporate meddling and money. I think it tried to keep up with the blogs but that didn't work as they really began to become irrelevant when they tried to be bloggers. Maybe they will find their place and someday return to real journalism.
I think you overestimate the influence of high traffic blogs
we have come a long way, but bloggers are still very minor players and I think the bloggers who persuaded Glen Beck's advertisers to walk did a wonderful thing.
sigh. media 'reform' is impossible
imho. there's only one answer and that's turn it off, stop paying for it, and contribute to sites like this one and alternative media truth tellers.
feh. never mind me, i'm being annoying. i'm just so sick of progressives believing they've "accomplished" something bc one or another bobblehead is pressured. afaic, controlling the corporate media landscape is as possible as pigs flying.
what's that Simpson's ep (yes, i feel the deep irony here) "Just Don't Look! Just Don't Look!" i guess that's too hard.