The Power of the Alternative Media
By Jon Bartholomew
Posted on Wed Aug 27, 2008 at 05:45:49 PM EST
I have to give a lot of credit to the American public. As the mainstream media headed down in quality, we the people decided to take action and instead of just whining or resigning ourselves, we decided to create our own media.
There is no better example of that than here in Denver right now. The hundreds of bloggers at the Big Tent, the public access show producers crawling all over town with cameras, and the alternative media are all doing what the mainstream media isn't.
While the big cable news networks are focused on parsing the words in speeches to try to determine the impact on the horse race for president, the citizen media is out there reporting on everything from what is going on with the police in Denver during the DNC to how well the "greenness" of the convention is working.
Granted, there is certainly bias to be found in every blog post and public access show, but as long as we allow the internet and public access to be open and available to all citizens equally, we will be able to see enough diversity of reporting for us to filter out what is accurate and worthy. Besides, as if there isn't bias in the mainstream media?
But what will happen if we lose net neutrality? (AT&T is here in force trying to influence our politicians - to oppose net neutrality.)
What will happen if we lose public access?
This is why we will continue to fight along side our allies in the Media and Democracy Coalition to protect the alternative media and improve the mainstream media.
Join our fight today.
Tags: media reform, media ownership, bigtentdenver, net neutrality (all tags)
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