Turn Anger About Propoganda Into Action at NCMR
Submitted by MegTady on May 1, 2008 - 8:21am.
The New York Times story on a secret Pentagon plan to spread favorable views of the war by recruiting and planting military analysts in the nation's news media is just the latest example of the crisis in our media system.
If you’re enraged by this blatant propaganda and you want to learn how to fight for change in our media system, you need to be in Minneapolis on June 6-8.
At this year’s National Conference for Media Reform, we’ll help you connect the dots on how consolidation leads to a media that never properly challenged the Bush administration’s case for the Iraq war and failed to counter the official version with dissenting views. You won’t want to miss our panel on "War & the Media" featuring Naomi Klein and Rev. Lennox Yearwood.
Since it’s obvious that our “watchdogs” need watching, our trainings will give you media monitoring techniques, grassroots and online organizing skills, and communications strategies.
And you can learn how our media became toothless at our panel on the Changing Role of Media Watchdogs, featuring Media Matters’ Eric Boelhert and the Center for Media and Democracy's Diane Farsetta. These are just a few of the amazing panels and workshops you can be part of at NCMR to help bring your awareness and activism to the next level.
Don’t just get mad about the media’s role in duping the American people into war – get active.
We need you in this fight.
If you’re enraged by this blatant propaganda and you want to learn how to fight for change in our media system, you need to be in Minneapolis on June 6-8.
At this year’s National Conference for Media Reform, we’ll help you connect the dots on how consolidation leads to a media that never properly challenged the Bush administration’s case for the Iraq war and failed to counter the official version with dissenting views. You won’t want to miss our panel on "War & the Media" featuring Naomi Klein and Rev. Lennox Yearwood.
Since it’s obvious that our “watchdogs” need watching, our trainings will give you media monitoring techniques, grassroots and online organizing skills, and communications strategies.
And you can learn how our media became toothless at our panel on the Changing Role of Media Watchdogs, featuring Media Matters’ Eric Boelhert and the Center for Media and Democracy's Diane Farsetta. These are just a few of the amazing panels and workshops you can be part of at NCMR to help bring your awareness and activism to the next level.
Don’t just get mad about the media’s role in duping the American people into war – get active.
We need you in this fight.
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It's time to speak up
I know people are spread thin these days but I think straightening out the media consolidation that's gone on gets near the root cause of what keeps us from solving a lot of the problems our country faces.
I'm off again to try and speak before a Senate panel in favor of a resolution to back the idea of single payer health care here in Colorado so everyone can have access to quality health care. It's time to speak up about all sorts of things all over the place and with the internet it's possible to do so and to know where to go.
Minnesota is on my calendar.
Spelling changes
I guess it's all right to go back and correct how I spelled calendar. Nothing to lose sleep over in any case. Fact is if you want to say something and you want to make it count you have to spell correctly otherwise someone will surely jump your case or dismiss what you say.
Many who came to speak for health care didn't get a chance and some including myself only got to speak the name of their town when asked by the speaker of the committee but that is not all that was said. The fact that so many went was as much a form of speech as speaking one on one to legislators and others you might know. Discussion on the resolution was held over and the time the Senate reconvened was pushed back a little perhaps so even a few could speak that day. The resolution allowed those present more understanding and the little exchange of ideas we saw surely gave us insight into how the process works.
There are legislators who do lose sleep about the state of our nation. Men and women who care deeply and want to make it so the people are heard. So when you think of people who serve our nation try not to be angry but to speak up every chance you get and make yourself heard.
Media and Healthcare
Hi Dale
How is the media covering the healthcare fight in CO?
Not very well apparently
Not very well apparently particularly since one of the Senators on the committee even remarked that none of the proposed health care plans studied actually would reduce costs on the whole. This wasn't true and was greeted by a sigh of protest from many in the room. I and probably many others had attended Blue Ribbon commission hearings as they were held throughout the state where it had been pointed out repeatedly that if the state adopted the only single payer health care plan on the list, also known as Health Care for All Colorado there would indeed be a substantial net reduction in costs while providing healthcare for everyone. Seems to me that if the media had been doing its job everyone in the state would have been aware of that and that the vast majority of the public who had spoken out did so in favor of that plan.
These things are connected. The way the war was handled, health care reform, our education system, you name it. It takes an informed and responsive citizenry to make things right. If we here in Colorado can adopt a plan for health care that works it will be a chance to lead the nation. Protecting citizens and doing what's right for them is what government's about. This is a bipartisan issue just like many others should be and if the federal government isn't going to lead we will.
Correction notice
The name of the single payer health care plan the Blue Ribbon commission studied is Colorado Health Services Program. I had the name of the non-partisan advocacy group supporting the plan where I should have had the name of the plan.
Barry Keene, Vice President of Health Care For All Colorado, says that, "Health Care For All Colorado is Colorado's principle Single Payer health care advocacy group and that Colorado Health Services Program is an excellent example of a single payer health care system".