Posted on 10/07/2009 8:29:07 AM PDT by Halfmanhalfamazing
Some people accuse me of “red-baiting” or “McCarthyite” tactics when I use the “M-word” (Marxism) or the “S-Word” (socialism) to describe McChesney, the Free Press, and the movement they have spawned. But these are labels with real meaning and ones that McChesney himself embraces in his work. In his 1999 book Rich Media, Poor Media, he says that “Media reform cannot win without widespread support and such support needs to be organized as part of a broad anti-corporate, pro-democracy movement.” He casts everything in “social justice” terms and speaks of the need “to rip the veil off [corporate] power, and to work so that social decision making and power may be made as enlightened and as egalitarian as possible.” What exactly would all that mean in practice for media? In his 2002 book Our Media, Not Theirs: The Democratic Struggle against Corporate Media with John Nichols of The Nation, McChesney argues that media reform efforts must begin with “the need to promote an understanding of the urgency to assert public control over the media.” They go on to state that, “Our claim is simply that the media system produces vastly less of quality than it would if corporate and commercial pressures were lessened.”
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Yeppers. When heard him mention this I started digging:
http://www.freepress.net/about_us/staff
http://www.robertmcchesney.com/
http://i1.democracynow.org/2009/3/27/robert_mcchesney_on_the_death_and
Dan Rather's call to the Administration comes to mind here.
Technology has made it more difficult for this kind of thing, inasmuch as it's not just the major networks who control the news any more. The FTC's action, referred to by Beck yesterday, needs to be watched carefully, however, for it may portend future efforts to "control" media like the one we're participating in at the moment.
That’s great. Let’s all keep it rolling, keep digging, and out all these SOBs.
All these people fear truth and light, that’s why they creep around in the dark.
And they scatter like roaches when the light is turned on.
I read this one a couple of months ago. Had it been for McChesney and his followers, radio would have been nationalized when it was invented. They’re pure Marxists.
http://www.oup.com/us/catalog/general/subject/?view=usa&ci=0195093941
Telecommunications, Mass Media, and Democracy
The Battle for the Control of U.S. Broadcasting, 1928-1935
Robert W. McChesney
You are correct about Robert McChesney. I knew the name was familiar when I read the posts above. I dug into this in 2004. Some of the website information has been “scrubbed” but this article explains some of their tactics.
Communists Flourish in Patriotic America
“They that are on their guard and appear ready to receive their adversaries are in much less danger of being attacked than the supine, secure and negligent.” Benjamin Franklin.
Benjamin Franklin understood the incredible challenges our country would face all those years ago. He knew that competing interests would rally for control of government entities and actions.
Let us not be negligent in understanding America’s adversaries and the tactics they employ. Our country is based on the concepts of freedom and respect for individual liberties. These privileges can be abused as evidenced throughout history. Our rights have been the target of many schemes, attacks and manipulations.
Our founding fathers feared this threat even in the early years of our country “political parties provoke the mischief of associations and combinations,” stated George Washington. The father of our country would be astonished to learn just how right he was and American citizens must work to understand the facts behind the scenes played out on our televisions and in the halls of our government institutions.
The basic premises of American Government are tested once again as the anti-war rally and calls to action build in intensity. Many people at this point will say, “Free speech and the right to protest are rights of all Americans.” When free speech becomes treasonous, betraying our government and citizens in an attempt to manipulate our rule of law it is no longer the right of every citizen.
Ion Mihai Pacepa stated in an article in the Washington Times, October 2, 2003, “Our Western left-wing organizations, like the World Peace Council, existed for the sole purpose of spreading propaganda we gave them. These very same groups bray the exact same themes to this day.” Mr. Pacepa understands communist propaganda very well. The “we” that he refers to is the KGB and the communist party. He is reportedly the highest-ranking intelligence officer ever to have defected from the former Soviet bloc and he has written extensively on Anti-Americanism and its origins.
Judith Leblanc attended a recent gathering of the World Peace Conference, Athens, Greece, 2004. She was there with three of her associates to represent Americans and the Communist Party, USA. Leblanc also represents United for Peace and Justice, one of the major factions behind the anti-war movement in America. “We in the peace movement must find new ways to facilitate the joint action of the religious, trade union, women, youth and students in the political arena and defeat the elected officials who preach war,” stated Leblanc at a recent organizational event.
Banners at upcoming protests across the United States and Europe will echo the communist mantra. The People’s Weekly World Newspaper, a communist/socialist publication is working to “raise spirits and funds from coast to coast.” The periodical has several reoccurring themes common to many radical news sources.
One consistent theme is dealing defeat to the communist’s adversary, and working within the Democrat party. Radfest 2004, Williams Bay, Wisconsin June 4-6 sponsored by Patrick Barrett and the Havens Center, University of Wisconsin is one example. Activists from across the U.S joined to discuss staggering goals like “replacing Bush, ending the war in Iraq, reforming the mass media, and inclusively building the movement for change.”
Taking the social in socialism seriously was the topic for Erik Olin Wright, Department of Sociology, University of Wisconsin, Madison. Community driven neighborhood change was featured by We the People media group.
Organizing for media justice was featured in a talk given by Robert McChesney. He is a professor of communication at the University of Illinois and serves as a good example of the quality of education in our highest educational facilities. His left leaning philosophy is available on the website http://www.robertmcchesney.com/.
Ron Blascoe, representing union community activists spoke on labor rights and lessons for a new labor movement. Other topics included, how to form a progressive movement on a conservative campus, organizing for change, our democracy, and our airwaves. Latinos are working with “Get your GSA On!” (Gay, Straight alliance).
Many in the news media are guilty of blameworthy indifference as they neglect to inform the American public of the forces rallying against our way of life. Americans dutifully turn on their evening news in an effort to learn the important events of the day. They become victims of a massive propaganda war with more coverage of the latest plastic surgery and diet fads than reports of substance on things vital to the future stability and security of America.
The overriding talk of communist, left and progressive forces in our country is to fully engage in this struggle at the ballot box. These activists are working diligently to move America in the direction of socialism. Allen Ruff, self proclaimed independent historian, and radical scholar provides a look inside the socialist mind in his book, “We called each other comrade.”
A patriot and a communist are two different things. Liberals consistently refuse to acknowledge this fact, while promoting socialism under the pretext of equality for all.
By Kathy Gibson Boatman
The establishment of an American Soviet government will involve the confiscation of large landed estates in town and country, and also, the whole body of forests, mineral deposits, lakes, rivers and so on.” - William Z. Foster, National Chairman of the Communist Party USA, 1932
Yahoo or Google searches for the following items provide amazing information
www.zmag.org or www.iuniverse.com followed by a search for A Red in the House by Stephen Fleischman Radfest 2004 Williams Bay Wisconsin
WOW! That is absolutely chilling.
I still have the pdf document from Radfest 2004 and it clearly shows what these “community organizers” have been up to.
Please check out my post.
Can you get the info the Rasmeussen or Beck?
"Fidel Castro, Hugo Chavez, Muammar Qaddafi and Vladimir Putin have all praised Barack Obama. When enemies of freedom and democracy praise your president, what are you to think? When you add to this Barack Obama's many previous years of associations and alliances with people who hate America-- Jeremiah Wright, Bill Ayers, Father Pfleger, etc.-- at what point do you stop denying the obvious and start to connect the dots?"
I got the following in an email yesterday. Somehow I believe that FOX has already connected the dots.
This Sunday night at 8:00 PM central /9 PM Eastern.
Fox News is going to air a very important documentary about Barack Obama, The report will go back to Obama’s earlier days, showing even then his close ties to radical Marxist professors, friends, spiritual advisers, etc.
It will also reveal/detail his ties to Rev. Wright for 20+ yrs. How he was participating with this man, and not for the reasons he states!
The report has uncovered more of Obama’s radical past and we will see things that no one in the media is willing to put out there. It will be a segment to remember.
Mark your calendar and pass this on to everyone you know: Sunday night,
8 PM. CT; 9 PM ET.
Democrat or Republican, this report will open your eyes to how YOUR country is being sold down the road to Totalitarian Socialism.
It would be great if you could put that pdf up for others to view; put it on some server somewhere so we could download it too so that we all have copies of it.
And as another poster suggested, get all this to people with a better ability to spread information than ourselves.
Awesome!!!!!! Thanks for the ‘heads up’!
These people need to be stopped — by all means necessary.
Check your mail please
Exactly! Freepmail me if you have the ability to post a pdf, I don’t know how to do that!
I emailed the pdf from Radfest to the Beck producer.
I have some additional info I would like to share with other Fr people.
Glenn will be covering this tonight on the FOX TV show at five.
I have a pdf conversion program which makes it into a Word document which can be posted.
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