Cultivating the Media Garden

Um “Media activists have to learn to work with like-minded members of the corporate media”

Can I be the first say F*** that!

The corporate media are the problem, we need to create a new system and not allow ourselves, our movement to be coopted and/or colonized by commercial interests.  The corporate media see us as a niche market, and that’s all we will ever be in their system.

Check out the growing independent media system: http://coanews.org/affiliates

-this is what we need to grow and support while keeping it clear of corporations.  Again, Corporations are THE problem, not part of the solution.

Selling out our values is not winning

Posted by ryaninfo on Jan 30, 2007 at 6:04 PM

Until we radically change the law we will have to work around the big corporations. There’s also nothing wrong with pressuring them, we need to get over this infantile ultra-left posturing and do what we need
to do to combat media lies. Believe me, it’s not that the alternative media
like Pacifica Radio are so wonderful either. You spend some time here
in the Berkeley Zoo and you will find that not all the headcases are on the Right.

Posted by blondemike on Jan 31, 2007 at 6:26 PM

“alternative media” is not a label - Independent media is what I am for - independent of corporations and government ideally. 

Pacifica may not be perfect, but at least they do not have as many structural filters as the corporate media.  Clearly a more powerful independent system would help this country, it would help more Americans take note of diverse and dissenting views. 

That’s fine if people want to pressure them, but don’t consider them part of the solution - they are the problem with media. If you doubt it read “Rich Media, Poor Democracy”

Support independent media!

Posted by ryaninfo on Feb 1, 2007 at 5:28 AM