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Please let me know if you want ON or OFF of my Hillary ping list.
Ping!
Many of us remember Hillary’s statement that they (the Clintons) control the MSM, but that they need to get control of the internet to complete their control of information.
So, she was lining up the blogosphere at the same time or even before she denied that her senate run implied a run for President. I’m shocked, SHOCKED! I tell you.
“”[T]he GOP has made clever use of the Internet, astutely building informal networks of like-minded, interconnected Web sites...”
Uhh, right. The success of conservative websites has happened in spite of the GOP.
Let me know when the GOP starts using electric lights instead of candles.
If she becomes President, you can kiss FR goodbye.
Hillary really needs to take it up with Algore for not incorporating a dem controlled blogshere module at the internet’s inception.
When David Bennahum, the president and CEO of the Center for Independent Media, a progressive organization based in Washington, D.C., decided to create his first state-based spinoff, he looked to Colorado. His creation went live last year.
David S. Bennahum (French-American) posted a brief piece on abolishing the Electoral College, because its set up unfairly.
“For those of us who want to reform the Electoral College, by either abolishing it or changing it state by state to remove the “winner take all” principle, now is the time to self-organize and start a process to get others on board.”
1995...hmmm...that was about the time the mysterious Quidam appeared on FR spouting outrageous claims clearly designed to discredit this site. Hillary, are you Quidam?-LOL.
David Bennahum is a 1990 graduate, magna cum laude, of Harvard College with a degree in History and Literature. As a writer living in New York, he explores and explains the cultural, economic and political consequences brought on by cyberspace. David is a Contributing Editor at Wired, Spin, Lingua Franca, and I.D. His articles apprear in the New York Times, Harper's Bazaar, New York, The Economist, Marketing Computers, Slate, Feed and NetGuide.
Thanks for the ping, Richard Poe. Thanks very, very much for your work.
With google on her side, baby, it's in the bag.
Interesting.
Ping.
sign me up, please. :D
Many of us FR vets remember talking about the internet-posting operatives in the White House basement!
I believe “Unknown Jerome” at DailyKos is a beneficiary of Blogola.
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HILLARY RODHAM and BILL CLINTON’s, along with JOHN KERRY and TED KENNEDY’s, support for their Anti-Freedom hero Communist North Vietnamese Dictator HO CHI MINH’s push to take over a then Free South Vietnam during the Vietnam war ..horridly brought down upon a once Free South Vietnamese People:
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Pictures of a vietnamese Re-Education (SLAVE LABOR) Camp
http://www.Freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1308949/posts
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..”JOURNEY from the FALL”.. MoviePremieres = Fall of Saigon CLARITY..
http://www.Freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1806248/posts
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NEVER ever FORGET,
...it could all happen here.
If WE let them get away it this one last time..?
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Thank you for the Ping!
By Michael B. Brodkorb | October 2, 2006
MINNESOTA MONITOR & CENTER FOR INDEPENDENT MEDIA EXPOSED
According to Minnesota Monitor’s website (“All contributors listed here are Fellows with the Center for Independent Media”), the following 10 bloggers are contributors (called fellows):
Abdi Aynte: Hiiraan Online, tcdailyplanet.net
Andy Birkey: Eleventh Avenue South, Metroblogging Minneapolis.
Joe Bodell: Minnesota Campaign Report
Craig Cox: The MInneapolis Observer, Twin Cities Daily Planet
Jeff Fecke: Blog of the Moderate Left, Minvolved, DFLSenate
Matt Martin: MN Publius
Robin Marty: The Power Liberal, Drinking Liberally, DFLSenate
Leigh Pomeroy: Vox Verax
Sara Reller: Broken Nails
Paul Schmelzer: Walker Art Center blogs
According to the New Journalist Fellowship Application, “fellows” are paid a stipend of $4500 over 3 months to blog. I’m not aware of the bloggers listed above disclosing on their blogs they are paid to blog. This disclosure is also noticeably absent from Minnesota Monitor’s website.
The Center for Independent Media is spending at least $31,500 (7 paid bloggers x $4,500) to pay liberal bloggers in Minnesota.
This begs the question: who is funding Minnesota Monitor and the Center for Independent Media?
In the interest of full disclosure, I attempted to find the answer.
Minnesota Monitor’s website lists no address or a contact phone number. But an address and phone number is listed on the bottom right-hand corner of the New Journalist Fellowship Application. The address is 1625 Massachusetts Avenue, 3rd Floor, Washington D.C. 1625 Massachusetts Avenue, Suite 300 is the location of Media Matters.Who is Media Matters?
“Media Matters for America is a Web-based, not-for-profit, 501(c) (3) progressive research and information center dedicated to comprehensively monitoring, analyzing, and correcting conservative misinformation in the U.S. media.” Source: Media Matters
I spoke with a representative of the Center for Independent Media and she informed me they are renting space from Media Matters and they do not receive any funding form Media Matters. I asked for information about their funding and she refused to provide me with any information about who is funding the Center for Independent Media.
If Media Matters is like the Center for Independent Media, it may be difficult to find out who is funding Minnesota Monitor:
“Media Matters has not always been forthcoming about its high-profile backers. In particular, the group has long labored to obscure any financial ties to George Soros. But in March 2003, the Cybercast News Service (CNS) detailed the copious links between Media Matters and several Soros ‘affiliates’—among them MoveOn.org, the Center for American Progress, and Peter Lewis. Confronted with this story, a spokesman for the organization explained that ‘Media Matters for America has never received funding directly from George Soros’ (emphasis added), a transparent evasion.
Nor were groups cited by CNS the only connection between Media Matters and Soros. As investigative journalist Byron York has noted, another Soros affiliate that bankrolled Media Matters was the New Democratic Network. In addition, Soros is reported to be involved in the newly formed Democracy Alliance, a partnership of some 80 affluent financiers who each have vowed to contribute $1 million or more in order to build up an ideological infrastructure of leftist thinks tanks and advocacy groups. News reports list Media Matters as a main beneficiary of the Alliance’s funding. By August of 2004, Media Matters’ operating budget had already doubled to $4 million.
Prior to founding Media Matters, David Brock met with a number of leading Democratic Party figures, including Senator Hillary Clinton, former Senator Tom Daschle of South Dakota, and former Vice President Al Gore. Today, more than a few of the organization’s roughly 30 staff members are Democratic operatives. Among these are Media Matters’ chief communications strategist Dennis Yedwab, who is also the Director of Strategic Resources at Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee. Brock’s personal assistant, Mandy Vlasz, is a Democratic pollster and a veteran consultant to Democratic campaigns, including the 2000 Gore/Lieberman campaign. Katie Barge, the Director of Research at Media Matters, formerly presided over opposition research for Senator John Edwards’ unsuccessful 2004 presidential campaign.” Source: Discover the Networks
So who is paying for Minnesota Monitor and the Center for Independent Media? I challenge the liberal blogosphere to disclose this important information.
thanks Richard for the ping.