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John Kerry and the Sub-Media Culture (says news arbitrator needed)
GoGov ^ | March 6, 2005 | Russell Betts

Posted on 03/16/2005 11:17:28 AM PST by BJungNan

 

John Kerry and the Sub-Media Culture
by Russell Betts (March 16, 2005)

We don't have any illusions that Senator John Kerry was talking specifically about us or that he is even aware of these pages. We are just a small part in a much larger group of new news outlets that John Kerry has just labeled a sub-media culture, a sub culture he does not find to his liking and that he says needs to be controlled.

Speaking at an event at the John F. Kennedy Presidential Library in Boston. last February, Kerry complained about us and the thousands of others in internet news. What he said is shocking only if you believe Kerry words could ever put this new information age back in the bottle. 

"We learned," Kerry said to the gathering, "that the mainstream media, over the course of the last year, did a pretty good job of discerning. But there's a subculture and a sub-media that talks and keeps things going for entertainment purposes rather than for the flow of information. And that has a profound impact and undermines what we call the mainstream media of the country. And so the decision-making ability of the American electorate has been profoundly impacted as a consequence of that. The question is, what are we going to do about it?"  

What Senator Kerry would like to do about it is to shut us all up. But he can't say that publicly. What he did say publicly, though, is just as shocking. "When fear is dominating the discussion and when there are false choices presented and there is no arbitrator, we have a problem," said Kerry.

In case you missed that, Kerry says the problem is the lack of an arbitrator to control the dissemination of news. He did not say who or what that arbitrator should be, only that we have a problem because there is not one.

The "sub-media" is a problem for Kerry because the mainstream media is no longer in control to silence groups like the Swift Boat Vets by ignoring them and denying them coverage. Or to keep stories quiet like we chronicled about Kerry's lead in outsourcing trade missions to China in the late 1990's in conjunction with a Boston company boasting over 70 outsourcing projects - at the same time we were reporting on this, his preferred news disseminators were dutifully printing Kerry's campaign speeches calling for an end to outsourcing without a word of Kerry's involvement in the very thing he was speaking against.

Surely the problem Kerry sees is that stories run by Dan Rather, The New York Times and the other media giants favorable to him are being knocked down as false by internet newsgroups calling themselves FreeRepublic, Powerline, and Little Green Footballs.

The problem for Kerry is that he could not count on the mainstream media as the only information gatekeeper in his bid to take the presidency. A recent study that showed the mainstream news coverage was much harder on Bush is no doubt the reason why Kerry sees it as a problem that the mainstream media is no longer the only game in town, one that for the most part is a game in his favor.

What is sub-culture to Kerry are the internet news outlets that report what the mainstream media will not and expose what the mainstream media fabricates. It is you by the millions that increasingly rely on internet news for at least a part of the news you take in. Kerry does not like this new sub-culture. He does not like you having access to it. Says Kerry, "It is a problem," a problem in need of an arbitrator, an arbitrator "to protect the decision-making ability of the American electorate."

It's a problem to Kerry that the only arbitrator is now you.


TOPICS: Editorial; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: internetnews; kerry
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1 posted on 03/16/2005 11:17:28 AM PST by BJungNan
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To: BJungNan
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Any day now.....

2 posted on 03/16/2005 11:19:17 AM PST by MarineBrat ("God is dead"- Nietzsche,1886. "Nietzsche is dead"- God,1901)
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To: BJungNan

Communists want freedom of speech only for themselves. Changing things does not make Kerry any less of a traitor!


3 posted on 03/16/2005 11:19:55 AM PST by Owl558 (Please excuse my spelling)
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To: BJungNan
Of course a statist like Kerry is going to seek bureaucratic revenge on us "Pajamahadeen" -- we cost him the presidency.

Click the Gadsden flag for pro-gun resources!

4 posted on 03/16/2005 11:20:21 AM PST by Joe Brower (The Constitution defines Conservatism.)
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To: BJungNan
John, haven't seen that form 180 yet. Liar!
5 posted on 03/16/2005 11:20:22 AM PST by rocksblues (Rino's = Collins, Snowe, DeWine, Graham, Specter, Coleman, McCain, Chaffee developing)
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To: BJungNan
The MSM's Information Monopoly has been broken - now everyone can find out what a Fraud Kerry is. And all he can do is whine like a little beotch about it. Thank God that LOSER is not running the country.
6 posted on 03/16/2005 11:21:54 AM PST by Fenris6 (3 Purple Hearts in 4 months w/o missing a day of work? He's either John Rambo or a Fraud)
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To: BJungNan
We learned," Kerry said to the gathering, "that the mainstream subculture and the sub-media , over the course of the last year, did a pretty good job of discerning. But there's a subculture and a sub-media the mainstream media talks and keeps things going for entertainment purposes rather than for the flow of information.

Seems to me that stupid Johnny has it 180 degrees out of phase

7 posted on 03/16/2005 11:23:18 AM PST by tx_eggman (Liberalism is only possible in that moment when a man chooses Barabas over Christ.)
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To: BJungNan
"...Kerry says the problem is the lack of an arbitrator to control the dissemination of news."

How about his guys? He has OTJ experience...

"All your news are belong to us!"

8 posted on 03/16/2005 11:36:22 AM PST by Chinito (6990th Security Group, RC-135, Class of '68)
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To: Chinito

oops...his guys = this guy


9 posted on 03/16/2005 11:37:52 AM PST by Chinito (6990th Security Group, RC-135, Class of '68)
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To: BJungNan
The days of having biased and nonfactual "news" rammed down our throats is over. And, as usual, Kerry fails or refuses to acknowledge it. He still thinks that his stirring speeches should be sufficient for our needs. Idiot.
10 posted on 03/16/2005 11:40:06 AM PST by crazyhorse691 (We won. We don't need to be forgiving. Let the heads roll!!!!!!!!!)
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To: BJungNan
We're not pajama people anymore, now we are sub-media.

:-)

11 posted on 03/16/2005 11:40:45 AM PST by george wythe
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To: BJungNan

Democrats are perpetual whiners. I have never seen one group of people go out of their way to change the rules of a game as much as these people do. Whether it was the election fiasco in Florida, the Judicial nomination process or this latest media arbitration idea...once Democrats have no use for the current system (i.e. they begin losing), they want to change it.

If they had their way, we no longer would have the electoral college; we would need a super-majority in the Senate to get Judges approved and the media would need moderators. It's astounding to watch the limits these people will go, to regain power...including literally rewriting our Constitution.


12 posted on 03/16/2005 11:42:54 AM PST by cwb
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To: BJungNan

The longer Kerry waits to open his 180 the more difficult to run again.
Kerry needs to put space between revealing his deeds including the heroic ones, that can help him overcome such a news release.
Give the media time to do what what needs to be done to make Kerry presentable again.


13 posted on 03/16/2005 11:52:13 AM PST by hermgem
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14 posted on 03/16/2005 11:57:06 AM PST by BJungNan (Have a look at GoGov.com)
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To: BJungNan

Hey Horseface, 44 days ago you told the mainstream press (Russert) that you'd sign the Form 180. Shut up until you sign it you hypocrite, in fact, shut up , period.


15 posted on 03/16/2005 11:58:38 AM PST by Big Digger (I)
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To: MarineBrat

He sounds like the same John Kerry but for some reason he looks different.

16 posted on 03/16/2005 11:59:52 AM PST by BJungNan (Have a look at GoGov.com)
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To: george wythe

No, the sub-media are a group of people who cover submarines in the media for a living.

The Pajamahadeem are the guys who led the charge
to whip Kerry's butt.


17 posted on 03/16/2005 12:03:51 PM PST by righttackle44
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To: BJungNan

During the campaign the Kerry people did their absolute best to suppress the alternate media, going so far as to threaten news outlets with litigation if they showed the Swiftvets' ads and threatening movie theaters that had the temerity to think about showing "Stolen Valor." If he, or another totalitarian monster like him (think PIAPS), ever becomes POTUS, what's left of the First Amendment will be promptly flushed down the nearest toilet. Then we'll all have "free speech" equivalent to the "academic freedom" enjoyed by Ward Churchill and Larry Summers, administered according to the same rules (free speech for Marxists and no speech for anybody else).


18 posted on 03/16/2005 12:25:21 PM PST by libstripper
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To: libstripper
During the campaign the Kerry people did their absolute best to suppress the alternate media, going so far as to threaten news outlets with litigation if they showed the Swiftvets' ads and threatening movie theaters that had the temerity to think about showing "Stolen Valor."

I forgot about this. Scary.

19 posted on 03/16/2005 12:41:03 PM PST by BJungNan
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To: BJungNan

I really don't see how he could have sworn to uphold the Constitution, since he so hates the First Amendment.


20 posted on 03/16/2005 12:43:12 PM PST by libstripper
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