GN1927 recently wrote a diary entitled
Conyers, Apian, and Arthur: Combine and Amplify Your Efforts!!! where he/she tried to encourage Kossacks to support our three approaches to trying to get the mass media to report on the Downing Street thing and other so-far stonewalled stories such as Galloway, Guckert/Gannon...name your own poison. There is no shortage of stonewalled evidence.
But FIRST we have to get the attention of the people on THIS site.
Really.
I find it encouraging that apian's latest diary
Mad As Hell And Not Going To FAKE It Anymore is currently on the recommended list, and even MORE encouraging that Rep. Conyer's diary
Smoking Bullet in the Smoking Gun? has been front paged here.
But not enough attention has been paid to the NEWSTRIKE!!! idea. I posted more on it today (Who really owns the media? (More NEWSTRIKE!!! info)) and my four previous attempts at getting some attention for this movement can be accessed here, here, here, and here.
Generally, these things have each gotten well under 20 recommendations OR comments.
But the idea stands.
It needs no great web-based infrastructure to succeed.
It needs no huge effort on the part of the people involved.
We don't have to get into some kind of transportation and assemble at a given hour and place in Washington to march on Congress or the White House or the WAPO offices or wherever.
We don't have to depend on the good offices of Rep. Conyers and his allies to try to further embarrass BushCo into actually paying some public attention to the rapidly mounting evidence of their own criminality
I MEAN...DO YOU ACTUALLY EXPECT THEM TO CONFESS???
Get real.
Rep. Conyers' efforts are simply added pressure on their criminal enterprise, and GOOD pressure.
But we CAN fairly easily begin to rip the veil of media protection off of their actions by THREATENING THE MEDIA WITH A SERIOUS BOYCOTT. And this media protection is BuskCo's strongest weapon. Bet on it. WMD=Weapons of Mass Deception.
The very corporations that run the media have a weak spot.
The bottom line.
Up AND down the line.
You've heard of the academic concept of "Publish of perish?"
Well in the corporate world it is "PROFIT or perish."
Perish fairly quickly, at the lower levels.
Now the people who run the media...the editors, the producers, the more visible talking heads and columnists, and even on up to some of the owners and publishers...are relatively small fish in the corporate world.
They would be the equivalent of middle management in a smaller system than "the media".
And we ALL know what happens to middle management (and its mortgages, car loans, kids' education funds, health insurance and retirement plans) when its division shows a loss.
"Off with their heads!!!" cried the Queen.
Well...THEY are only too familiar with that Queen.
The Queen Bitch known as corporatism.
And they are literally scared shitless by her.
Threaten the profitability of their division and you threaten their livelihood.
Since they have TOTALLY BOUGHT INTO THAT SYSTEM (or else they would not have risen as far in that system as they have...the system has its own set of checks and balances, and its main check is its denizens' BANK balance. Believe it.), the slightest threat that their own little niche could be unbalanced by a boycott will frighten them even more than whatever has forced them into being a part of the disinfo system in the first place. (Y'see...most of them already KNOW that they are supporting a big lie. The wingnut accusations of liberal media bias are true up to that point, anyway. All they need is to be tipped a little by some unexpected outside force and they will fall like the weak-willed upper middle class hustlers that they truly are. House O' Cards. Inc.)
So I thank you, GN1927, for your attempt to draw some more attention towards this idea.
Now it is up to US.
If the blog world is the real vanguard of change here in the U.S., then it is up to the vanguard of that vanguard to start acting in new ways.
This is ALL information war.
It is an information AGE.
What better way to fight than to try to injure the info forces that actively oppose us?
And the corporate media is just that.
Every time a story has been widely dumped...and I mean right through from the JFK assassination to whatever latest proof of PermaGov perfidy arises from the efforts of individual investigators...it further proves who is the real enemy on this level.
And yet we continue in our own hypnotic trance to debate how we can "get their attention."
Shit.
Does a soldier complain about the unfairness of his enemy's fire?
No.
He knows that it is WELL past the "complaint" stage if he is indeed being repeatedly and effectively fired upon.
No...he marshals his weapons and fires BACK.
So...ready, aim, FIRE.
It has been over 40 years since this media system started organizedly firing on the American dream of an open society.
Time to fight back.
NEWSTRIKE!!!
It is time to fire back.
And we each and every ONE of us have the proper weapon for this kind of battle.
Our money.
Kick `em in the nuts.
The family jewels.
Their money sacks.
Follow the money...and then close off the supply lines.
NEWSTRIKE!!!
Talk about guerrilla warfare!!!
What're they gonna do?
Drop bombs on our homes because we stopped buying the NY Times or products that sponsor network news?
Don't even need to wear masks.
NEWSTRIKE!!!, goddamnit.
It's an idea whose time has come.
NEWSTRIKE!!!
AG