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Wednesday, December 4, 2002 |
2 QUOTES FOR TODAY
"The media is kind of weird these days on politics, and there are some major institutional voices that are, truthfully speaking, part and parcel of the Republican Party."
- - Al Gore
"It was because of our coverage that it happened." (referring to the recent Republican landslide) "People watch us and take their electoral cues from us. No one should doubt the influence of Fox News in these matters."
- - Brit Hume (Fox News Anchor)
RHINO HERE:
If you haven't heard of Roger Ailes, you need get up to speed. Chairman of the Fox News Channel, he's a close confidant of Bush - oh and shrub too. He was President Daddy Bush's media consultant and previously Tricky Dick Nixon's media guru. It's been alleged that shortly after the events of 9/11/01, Ailes had direct coaching type communications with Shrub.
In Michael Moore's book, "Stupid White Men: And Other Sorry Excuses for the State of the Nation!", (Rhino says, "If you haven't read it, you ain't done your homework) written well before 9/11/01, Ailes relationship with the Bush klan is well documented. (Now available with a boxed 2003 Calendar) :)
A recent NY Times article by Paul Krugman, "In Media Res" mentions the bias of Fox News, but more importantly addresses broader questions: Will the economic interests of the media undermine objective news coverage? And do the conflicts of interest of our highly concentrated media constitute a threat to democracy? A good read available at:
http://www.commondreams.org/views02/1129-01.htm
Speaking of Fox News, This Thursday, 12/5, the Marijuana Policy Project's Rob Kampia will appear on "The O'Reilly Factor," (8 pm EST/repeated at 11pm) At 20 minutes after the hour, Kampia, in a 5-minute interview, will discuss the formal complaint MPP is filing against Drug Czar John Walters for his illegal campaigning against Question 9, MPP's recent ballot initiative in Nevada. Rhino suggests burning one at the top of the hour and then watching the fireworks. See MPP's media advisory for details.
http://www.mpp.org/releases/ma120202.html
For background on the drug czar's illegal campaigning, see these links.
FOX NEWS COVERAGE
http://www.mpp.org/states/site/quicknews.cgi?key=2088
MARIJUANA POLICY PROJECT COVERAGE
http://www.mpp.org/NV/news_2089.html
Below the line today is a thoughtful piece by a man who knows a bit about the media; Don Hazen, former publisher of Mother Jones magazine and now Executive Director of the Independent Media Institute & Executive Editor of AlterNet, an online magazine & effective information resource.
http://www.alternet.org
His article deals with several important perspectives on communications in a time dominated by hugely funded media conglomerates. How are we shallow pocketed progressives to get our message out? And most interesting to me; the juxtaposition of "strict father" mode of communication (the bedrock of conservative ideology) vs. "nurturant parent morality" (the basis for progressive/liberal ideology). Rhino suggests, "read the whole article".
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By Don Hazen, AlterNet, November 25, 2002
There's an ongoing debate among media experts, peace advocates and funders about what media messages and symbols could galvanize popular opinion against the seemingly imminent Bush Administration invasion of Iraq.
A number of ads from peace advocates have recently appeared in the New York Times and in other newspapers, with more in the pipeline. Each of the ads makes a somewhat different argument for why Americans should be resisting the will of the Bush administration to take over Iraq and try Saddam for war crimes.
Yet, it is increasingly apparent that the climate of fear promoted by the Bush Administration in the wake of a series of national traumas is having wide effect. It seems clear that the politics of fear and safety has been underestimated by progressives and pundits. This political message likely had more impact on the Democratic losses and Republican gains in the recent elections than the widespread sense that the Democrats had no message.
According to George Lakoff, a UC Berkeley University cognitive scientist and author of "Moral Politics," the anxiety-provoking anti-terrorism actions and messages of fear of the Bush administration fall into the category of the "strict father" mode of communication...
TO SEE THE ENTIRE ARTICLE, GO TO:
http://www.alternet.org/story.html?StoryID=14639
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