NO!!!Media ad buys may be a tactic to explore.
Buy the MEDIA, instead!
Impractical.As I keep insisting, when conservatives speak of “the media,” they have unwittingly already surrendered. Because anyone who gives the matter serious thought knows that you cannot censor fiction, and you can only make yourself look foolish trying to even speak as if you thought you could. Therefore the only sensible approach is to look to legal remedies for nonfiction. And in general, conservatives will almost never be seriously concerned by nonfiction books. The nonfiction book format is natually conducive to argumentation in depth about an issue - and in-depth treatment of an issue is normally going to be reasonably favorable to conservatives. And even when that is not the case ( see, for example. “An Inconvenient Truth”) , the book may get undue attention and promotion from journalism - but that is a separate issue.
The problem is not “the media,” the problem is “objective” journalism.
Until we can all stand up on our hind legs and say that, we will get nowhere. But how can we say we are against objectivity? We aren’t - far from it. But we are and logically must be opposed to “objective” journalism.
What is the distinction? What do the quote marks mean? Are they scare quotes? Yes - but they are also regular quotes. Because no one can know that they are actually objective. That being the case, anyone who claims to actually be objective is boasting of a virtue that they cannot know that they have. And, that being the case, anyone who claims to be objective - or who belongs to an organization which claims objectivity for them - is not objective about themselves.
In order to attempt objectivity, it is necessary to be open about any motives or interests which might cause you to not be objective. This, the one who claims actually to be objective cannot do; it is a logical inconsistency. It follows that anyone who claims the virtue of objectivity is not even trying - at least not in any conceivably effectual way - to be objective. Whoever “knows” that he is objective “knows” that anyone whose perspective differs from his own is wrong. Thus, such a person lacks the ability to give a full and fair exposition of the opposing viewpoint; he will inevitably create instead a straw man which is easily destroyed by the “right” opposing view.
This pseudo-objvetivity reveals itself time and again in such things as the deletion of the very meaningful dialog between the the police dispatcher’s question as to the cause of Zimmerman’s suspicion of Martin, and Zimmerman’s answer (“He’s black”) to the subsequent, unambiguously different, question as to Martin’s racial identity. Zimmerman is suing NBC over that, a decision which I applaud. The problem has been that most people do not take that path. The Duke Lacrosse team members should have sued all of journalism.
And here is the other salient point: it is entirely reasonable and logical to speak of “journalism” as a single, unified entity. There are many members of the Associated Press, and they are “independent” pro forma - but they are in constant communication with each other,every hour of every day. And as Adam Smith pointed out in 1776,
"People of the same trade seldom meet together even for merriment and diversion, but the conversation ends in a conspiracy against the public or some contrivance to raise prices."The reason that “the MSM” functions as a single entity is that each member of the Associated Press needs to stay in good graces with the whole of the Associated Press - with the result that ideological competition is excluded. That doesn’t mean that none of them profess conservative editorial page opinions - but it does mean that self-promoting “Wolf!” crying is the order of the day on the “objective” front page of every one of them.
Then we're done for.
If we do NOT get a balance BACK into the channels of information that feeds the masses that vote; then it's over.
Schools, media, intertainment, were ALL bought by the left.
The other choice is to fight, and that will NOT be pretty!
Ah!
You've simplified it!
We merely have to buy the AP!
You took the words out of my mouth. Word for word, I swear n