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Originally Posted by roachboy
....it is crazy, the power of tele-mediation in the states: a top-down corporate autocracy gets to frame in a close-to-absolute way how american pseudo-democracy functions. worse, a top-down corporate autocracy has, via repetition, managed to frame in its own image the boundary between inside and outside: what complicates the relationship between face-shot, utterances and the notion of acceptable duration for political propositions particular to commercial news outlets gets processed not as a limitation of the medium, but as a limitation imputed to those who interact with the medium, whose political signifiers are shaped through it.
which means that people have naturalized television, collapsed its medium-specific limitations onto the "reality" that is framed by/through them.
which is stupid: nothing more or less.
turn off the fucking television and read.
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The background for this post can be found on the thread on this forum, titled:
<b>Will New Democratic Party Controlled Congress, Investigate Secret Republican "Orgs"?</b>
roachboy, the "problem, IMO, is not television. It is the growth and influence of the coalition of corporatism/christian fundamentalism, directed by the 700 members of the "Council for National Policy", (CNP).
Large numbers of the former US TV network audience, have been "won over" to the idea of "receiving" most of their opinion shaping information from the affiliated "columnists", and radio talk show hosts, of townhall.com, which features the <a href="http://conwebwatch.tripod.com/outthere/otcnscolumnists.html">"news"</a> of CNSnews.com, a Brent Bozell III propaganda "enterprise".
From beginnings as a Compuserve BBS that was associated in 1994, with Abramoff's IFF....heritage foundation's and national review's town-hall, was sold in 2005, to CNP dominated, "christian media network", Salem Communications.
<b>I venture to advance the idea here, that almost all of the opinions advanced by "conservatives" on these threads, are heavily influenced by CNP associated "players", those talking heads and columnists associated with Salem Comm./townhall.com, from Novak to Coulter, and David Horowitz/frontpagemag, Joseph Farah/worldnetdaily Murdoch/foxnews, all under a christian fundamentalist "umbrella". </b>
The success of this effort to drive the attention of half of the country away from "liberal media bias", into the "arms" of this propaganda machine's narrowcasting, has much to do with the increasing polarization of this country. Half of us have only a vague idea of what the "on message", "other half", is even talking about.....even as we "marvel" at how resolute they are about "knowing what they know"......
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http://groups.google.com/group/misc....1225ac0ddc562?
"Red Scorpion" -- Propaganda Blockbuster
Most of the anti-Soviet propaganda clichs that the right has
systematically drummed into the American psyche over the last few
years were present in "Red Scorpion," a sensational Ramboesque
feature film that played last spring. The infamous "Hind
helicopter gunship" which dumped "yellow rain" on the natives
stole the show from the Russian assassin, played by Dolph
Lundgren, the evil Soviet boxer in "Rocky IV." The absurd plot
which had the Soviet assassin on a mission to Angola to off Jonas
Savimbi ends up with the Russians abandoning the assassin who is
adopted by a bushman. He is so inspired by their simple way of
life that he goes back and single-handedly wipes out the Soviets.
As the Russian leaves, the bushman, dramatically framed by a
sunset-washed butte, says, with feeling, "Das vadanya!"
This propaganda film, not unlike "Red Dawn", portrays the Soviets
as singularly evil, while their enemies, in this case the Angolan
"freedom fighters," are pure and loveable. [See Images of the
Enemy, p.22]
The circumstances behind the creation of "Red Scorpion," however,
are more interesting than its propaganda value. <b>The producer,
Jack Abramoff, has connections to the World-Anti Communist League
through his organization, the International Freedom Foundation
(IFF). According to Covert Action Information Bulletin (Winter
1989), IFF is closely associated with South Africa, where "Red
Scorpion" was filmed (the only American film to do so in the face
of an industry-wide boycott) and has offices in Tel Aviv.</b>
Abramoff, who specializes in right wing propaganda films, also
helped Oliver North raise money for the contras, according to a
declassified National Security Council memo [see PR #1].
Abramoff also actively marketed videotapes of Oliver North's
contra slide show.
How many other Hollywood films have pedigrees like "Red
Scorpion"?
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http://www.well.com:70/0/Politics/ac.../how.to.win/J1
.....<b>Town Hall</b>
(800) 648-6964 [modem - hit return on connect]
(800) 441-4142 (202) 546-4400 [voice]
An electronic bulletin board (BBS) and interactive dial-up computer service
for the conservative movement. <b>Sponsored by National Review and the Heritage Foundation.</b> Includes electronic (ASCII) text version of materials from groups such as the The Free Congress Foundation's National Empowerment Television project, Focus on the Family, The Leadership Institute, <b>International Freedom Foundation</b>, Citizens for a Sound Economy, and the State Policy Network of state-based think tanks.
http://groups.google.com/group/misc....age+foundation
misc.activism.progressive > PRA: List of Reactionary Groups (2/2)
From: Rich Winkel - view profile
Date: Tues, Jul 19 1994 6:42 pm
Email: r...@pencil.cs.missouri.edu (Rich Winkel)
Groups: misc.activism.progressive
Followup-To: alt.activism.d
[continued ...]
The Independence Institute
Golden, CO ......
..........Town Hall
On Compuserve computer network
(202) 546-4400 [voice line at Heritage
Foundation, ask for Town Hall information]
An electronic bulletin board (BBS) and
interactive dial-up computer service for the
conservative movement carried on the Compuserve
computer network. Sponsored by National Review
and the Heritage Foundation. Includes electronic
(ASCII) text version of materials from groups
such as the The Free Congress Foundation's
National Empowerment Television project, Focus on
the Family, The Leadership Institute,
<b>International Freedom Foundation</b>, Citizens
for a Sound Economy, and the State Policy Network
of state-based think tanks. .......
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http://groups.google.com/group/alt.a...7e870f1268d026
From: Edmund Weinmann - view profile
Date: Thurs, Mar 31 1994 6:03 pm
Email: Edmund Weinmann <eweinm...@delphi.com>
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A new conservative BBS is starting up as a private forum on Compuserve. It is
the National Review/Heritage Foundation "Town Hall". Cost will be $24.95 per
month, which includes UNLIMITED connect time to this board and to all of
Compuserve's basic services.
Access to all the rest of Compuserve is at regular rates. First month is free.
Sign-up fee of $24.95 includes $15 usage credit and the Compuserve access
software of your choice. Call 800-280-2392, or if busy 202-547-6368 or
202-546-4400 (all voice numbers
) and ask about TOWN HALL.
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http://www.nab.org/AM/AMTemplate.cfm...ContentID=3591
REPLY COMMENTS OF THE
NATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF BROADCASTERS
Jan. 3, 2005
(page 19
.........First, the views of CFA and CLC do not necessarily reflect the opinions of the majority of Americans. For example, although the raw number of complaints about broadcasters’ programming has soared over the past two years, it has been determined that nearly all such
complaints were filed by the Parents Television Council (“PTC”), a Los Angeles-based activist advocacy group. <b>Specifically, the PTC was responsible for 99.8% of the indecency complaints filed with the Commission in 2003, and 99.9% of the complaints filed through October 2004,</b>
excluding complaints concerning the Janet Jackson Super Bowl incident.
[60]
Thus, NAB believes
that, in actuality, CFA, CLC and the PTC are out of step with the majority of Americans when itcomes to the quality and enjoyment of broadcast programming.
These media critics also completely ignore the realities of today’s media marketplace
[60]
60
See e.g., Todd Shields, Activists Dominate Content Complaints, MediaWeek, December 6, 2004,
available at
http://www.mediaweek.com/mediaweek/h..._id=1000731656
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http://www.parentstv.org/PTC/faqs/main.asp
....To arrange a press interview with <b>PTC President Brent Bozell</b>, Senior Director Programs Melissa Caldwell, Executive Director Tim Winter or any of the PTC’s Advisory Board members, call or email our public relations consultant Kelly Oliver at Creative Response Concepts at 703.683.5004. To schedule a speaking engagement with PTC President Brent Bozell, call his assistant Danette Williams at 703.684.1699.
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http://www.townhall.com/aboutus.aspx
About Townhall.com
Townhall.com was launched in 1995 as the first conservative web community. At that time, only a handful of political sites existed and Townhall.com was the first major investment in online activism made by either side. In 2005, Townhall.com split off from The Heritage Foundation in order to expand the scope of Townhall.com's mission to inform, empower and mobilize citizens for political change. Today, Townhall.com is a web site that pulls together news and information from its 120 different "partner organizations," political commentary and analysis from over 100 different columnists, and activism tools developed to empower an active citizenry.
Townhall.com is designed to amplify conservative voices in America’s political debates just as the 2006 and 2008 election cycles begin to heat up.
By uniting the nations’ top conservative radio hosts with their millions of listeners, Townhall.com breaks down the barriers between news and opinion, journalism and political participation -- and enables conservatives to participate in the political process with unprecedented ease.
As a part of Salem Communications Corporation, Townhall.com features Salem’s News/Talk radio hosts, Bill Bennett, Mike Gallagher, Hugh Hewitt, Michael Medved, and Dennis Prager, who are heard on over 300 stations nationwide. Of our five hosts, three are among the top 10 radio talk shows in the nation!
For the first time, the grassroots media of talk radio, the internet, blogging and podcasting will be brought together in one place to activate conservative political participation.
By providing daily news and opinion articles, sophisticated activism tools, a vibrant blog community, online radio shows and more, Townhall.com will arm conservatives with the tools and information necessary to have an impact in shaping the news.
It’s Your World: Blog It. Podcast It. Change It.
* Blog it: Led by talk radio host and blogger Hugh Hewitt, Townhall.com is the first conservative site that enables conservatives to create their own blog in seconds.
* Podcast it: Townhall.com not only offers free podcasts of radio shows for Bill Bennett, Mike Gallagher, Dennis Prager, Michael Medved and Hugh Hewitt but also <b>from leading organizations like TCSDaily.com</b>, The VFW’s National Defense Show, The Northern Alliance Show with leading bloggers and Jay Sekulow Live.
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Insert by host: TCSDAILY.com is a corporate propaganda site....<a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Nick_Schulz">"dumped in Oct., onto it's "long time editor"</a> Nick Schulz....
Before TCSdaily, aka "Tech Central Station" was "dumped", just three weeks ago, this was it's record:
http://abcnews.go.com/Technology/sto...2612021&page=1
By CLAYTON SANDELL
WASHINGTON, Oct. 27, 2006 — ExxonMobil should stop funding groups that have spread the idea that global warming is a myth and that try to influence policymakers to adopt that view, two senators said today in a letter to the oil company.
In their letter to ExxonMobil chairman and CEO Rex Tillerson, Sens. Olympia Snowe, R-Maine, and Jay Rockefeller, D-W.Va., appealed to Exxon's sense of corporate responsibility, asking the company to "come clean about its past denial activities." .....
....An upcoming study from the Union of Concerned Scientists reported that ExxonMobil funded 29 climate change denial groups in 2004 alone. Since 1990, the report said, the company has spent more than $19 million funding groups that promote their views through publications and Web sites that are not peer reviewed by the scientific community.
The senators singled out the Competitive Enterprise Institute, a Washington think tank, and the Tech Central Station Web site as beneficiaries of Exxon's efforts to sow doubt within the public about the scientific consensus behind global warming.
"We are convinced that ExxonMobil's long-standing support of a small cadre of global climate change skeptics, and those skeptics' access to and influence on government policymakers, have made it increasingly difficult for the United States to demonstrate the moral clarity it needs across all facets of its diplomacy," the letter said........
<b>Background</b>
http://www.washingtonmonthly.com/fea...onfessore.html
.......But <b>TCS doesn't just act like a lobbying shop. It's actually published by one--the DCI Group, a prominent Washington "public affairs" firm specializing in P.R., lobbying, and so-called "Astroturf" organizing, generally on behalf of corporations, GOP politicians, and the occasional Third-World despot. The two organizations share most of the same owners, some staff, and even the same suite of offices in downtown Washington</b>, a block off K Street. As it happens, many of DCI's clients are also "sponsors" of the site it houses. TCS not only runs the sponsors' banner ads; its contributors aggressively defend those firms' policy positions, on TCS and elsewhere.
James Glassman and TCS have given birth to something quite new in Washington: journo-lobbying.........
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* Change it: The Townhall.com action center is modeled after the highly successful online action tools used by Bush-Cheney ’04 and GeorgeWBush.com. Building upon the word-of-mouth marketing strategies of BC’04, Townhall.com will activate conservative talk radio listeners.
Salem Communications is the leading US radio broadcaster targeting the large and growing audience interested in programming related to religion, family and culture and owns and operates 105 radio stations, with 66 stations in 24 of the nation’s top 25 metropolitan areas. As the 2006 and 2008 elections approach, <b>Townhall.com and Salem are building a strong, active conservative community by combining the power of the internet with the influence of talk radio.</b>
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http://gadflyer.com/articles/?ArticleID=260
Secret Society
Just <b>who is the Council for National Policy</b>, and why aren't they paying taxes?
by Sarah Posner, Contributor
2.21.05
......And while the mainstream media is asleep at the switch, <h3>CNP members' access to conservative media outlets enable them to collaborate and disseminate their propaganda. One example is Bozell and the Media Research Center, the mission of which is "to provide the conservative movement with the marketing and public relations tools necessary to deliver its message into the 21st century." Another example is that five directors of Salem Communications Company are or have been officers and directors of CNP: Salem's president and CEO, Edward G. Atsinger, III; Stuart W. Epperson (host of Truth Talk Live, a radio show broadcast on Salem's radio network); Roland S. Hinz (who is also president of Hi-Favor Communications, which has purchased radio stations from Salem to implement a Christian format in Spanish); Hodel; and Judge Paul Pressler (a retired Texas judge who has made a career of advocating a conservative resurgence in the Southern Baptist Convention). Salem owns over 100 Christian broadcast radio stations, is the provider of Christian programming on XM Satellite Radio, and recently agreed with America Online to provide the only Christian talk radio station on the AOL Radio Network.</h3> Last year, Salem was ranked in the top 100 in Fortune Small Business magazine's list of fastest growing small public companies. Salem is the seventh largest owner of radio stations in the country, and while it barely rivals Clear Channel at over 1,200 stations, the combined Christian broadcasting power of Salem and American Family Radio -- a project of the American Family Association -- would rank them fourth, just behind powerhouses Clear Channel, Cumulus, and Citadel. Many Republican House and Senate candidates, as well as the Bush/Cheney campaign, the Republican National Committee, and the Republican Majority Issues Committee, the issue advertising committee formed by DeLay, have been the beneficiaries of not only Atsinger's largesse, but that of Salem Communications' political action committee as well.......
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.....I post this "stuff"....and it changes nothing.....we still see posts that include "citations" from tcsdaily.com , CNSnews.com .....offered as "serious" support for posted opinions. If someone showed me that the sites where I was getting my "news"....the sites that I linked to in my posts on a politics forum, were actually bullshit propagandist "shill" sites.....I'd either stop posting links from them, or I would defend the integrity of the sites that were challenged.....I see none of that happening on this forum.....it's almost as it there is complete acceptance of this crap as authorative, by some of our posters !
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