I think it's fine that manifestos are being created. It makes the people who believe in certain things feel like they are taking action and it makes them feel better about themselves. Manifestos are also a good way to get ideas into cohesive publishable forms. Manifestos are usually political failures and substitutes for actually changing anything.
However. I would encourage everyone to publish their own material freely. In media terms, the problem is the hegemony of the huge, the crap of the conglomerate, the badness of the big. Small-scale publishing ventures are better than big ones.
It's a problem of scale and context. Small art-house venues are the proper place for MTV-styled entertainment. They are also fine venues for porn, etc. The problem of utter lack of social responsibility arises when what represents a relatively small demographic choice is dropped like so many tons of bricks upon the general population. That is the current situation.
Individual action and individual enterprise are the only antidotes to mass media. Do not aspire to mass media. Do not allow mass media to replace your thinking process. Almost no one here is interested in censoring anyone's responsibly contextualized expression.
Many - perhaps most - of us are becoming quite opposed to the type of garbage programming we are assaulted with by nonentities with every means of mass distribution at their disposal. They are the enemy.
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