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myspace is still vulnerable...

One of the crazy things about Myspace is that anybody can post any graphic to just about anybody else's page, in their guest book... why not simply post your graphic, maybe along with a mention about how Myspace is owned by the same right-wing extremists who own Faux News (and with a link to a page with more explanation about how your 'media consolidation' ad was censored by them), and post it to the pages of thousands or tens of thousands of Myspace users?  Their site is DESIGNED for 'social networking', after all, and this is certainly "social networking" at its finest.   :-)  It wouldn't be particularly difficult (Google?) to find myspace pages which would be supportive of your cause to post your graphic to...!

I think you also ought to consider advertising on AirAmericaRadio's site, and probably also get their talk show hosts talking about your case.  (And for that matter, too, Nova's "Mike Malloy Show" too!)

I think you should also get support from numerous other Internet-based news organizations which are widely syndicated (formally and informally) such as Citizens for Legitimate Government, Truthout, MoveOn.org, etc.

You also ought to consider setting up a video webcast channel (as Democracy Today has done) on the freeware Democracy Player (http://www.getdemocracy.org), which would allow you to (for free!) distribute periodic video news releases widely and freely.  The Internet allows just about anybody to set up their own news syndication networks, easily and cheaply.

The way, ultimately, that we get around the whole "media consolidation" issue is to simply make their "consolidated" right-wing media IRRELEVANT (or at least a great deal LESS relevant) by putting our attention to media that THEY do not, and can not, control... rather the way TIME noticed.  If we simply IGNORE (and don't watch, listen to, or visit) their media outlets... then THEY are the ones who ultimately are left owning outlets that simply aren't worth anything, since nobody goes there anymore!

by gep2 on Wed Jan 10, 2007 at 02:20:51 PM EST



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