This will be short as I just had this thought while commenting in another diary.
Want to boycott cable news? Tired of faux news? Want to send a message? Want to support real media? Here’s how.
1. Get things like a Roku, or I would imagine the Amazon Fire Stick or whatever else is out there that allows you to plug into sites like Youtube on your TV, dump your cable TV and watch nothing but indie media on youtube. Most of them have ads now, so watching and sharing their vids will help them make money PLUS most of them will have a donation link somewhere I am sure like TYT does. In case you don’t know, most of the younger generation gets their news from youtube, not cable. Time to exploit that source.
2. Post those links on the digital version of the MSM articles, the more people see those links. the more people will watch. Repeat.
Let’s recap, more people get their news off of Facebook than actual news sites these days, enter Brietbart et al who have learned how to use this to their advantage. As I mentioned in my diary about why Dems need better marketing and why, we need to learn to use the same tools they did. Let’s also buy informational ads on talk radio. How about make our own talk radio stations and push them out there into the world?
Americans don’t research, as a whole, so we have to feed them facts in sneaky ass ways, just like the Republicans feed lies. When will the DNC get a marketing arm that uses all the money they get towards swaying public opinion? When will left leaning folk support their own indie media? The Young Turks youtube channel has a little over 3 million subscribers. How many hits a day does Brietbart get? Most of the TYT vids have less than 100k views. So, lefties do you really support alternate news or are you all just full of it? Dkos has been around for close to 20 years now. How have we actually changed conversations and viewpoints? How much money has Kos made off this site? Is he out helping build new news stations? Anyone know?
Where is our version of Breitbart? Why haven’t we been able to sway public opinion? We have facts and truth on our side so what the hell do we keep losing the public perception battle?
Until we get control of the media back, we will continue to lose. So, ideas?