Power of (FR) press

self | 3/7/03 | self

[hoosierskypilot]

I don't know how many posters on FR realize the power of this forum. Before the internet, our primary source of news and information was controlled by the fascist media. They dispensed only the information they wanted us to know. They buried any information they wanted to conceal.

Now, with forums such as this (actually) this is the only forum like this of which I am aware, we have access to an unheard of quality: truth.

I recommend FR to my friends and have produced several fans as a result.

Now go thou and do likewise.

[jigsaw]

Agreed, but everytime I seen your screen name I say to myself, I don't know. Who's your sky pilot?

Honestly. It's driving me nuts!   ;-)

[MamaB]

You are so right. I use to watch network tv and would know when they told a story but not the whole story, if you know what I mean. I have not done that for many moons. Thanks to FR, I have an alternate source of news. The people here are in touch with the news all over which is great.

[NonValueAdded]

Isn't it amazing how many days ahead we see things posted here?

NVA sends. You gotta see this (So bad it's funny Alert): http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/859440/posts

[SamAdams76]

More and more, the topics discussed on FR end up on talk radio shows. It is apparent that just about every talk radio show monitors this website. If not the host himself (or herself), then a staffer who condenses the best replies on a given subject into a "cheat sheet."

[ladyinred]

Thank God for FreeRepublic! Before this forum, we were all lost in a maze of liberal news sources with no place to turn!

[backhoe]

More and more, the topics discussed on FR end up on talk radio shows...

I wrote this nearly a year ago:

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Yesterday was a fascinating study in the power and potential of the "new media"- an alliance of the web and talk radio...

I read most of the stories here on Free Republic and logged off to take my wife to work. As we were driving in, the callers to talk radio started coming up, and relaying information, stories, and refutations to "The President Knew!" that had to have come off the web.

By lunchtime, the flow had picked up drastically, and callers were showing more & more indignation- at the clinton's corrupt reign, at the media, and at the spin being peddled.

By late afternoon, the flow became a torrent of righteous anger and indignation.

It was a wonderful thing to behold, and you have to wonder that had it existed 10 years ago, a lot of really bad stuff would have died a-borning...

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[Ukiapah Heep]

The best part is that it really ticks off the liberals. They cannot stop this!

[sweetliberty]

I know what you mean. For a long time, the only truth in media that I knew of was Rush. Then Fox news came along and gradually weaned me off of other cable news. I first heard of FR on C-SPAN and the march for justice I believe it was, back during the impeachment. On election day 2000, I got my first computer and started reading on FR shortly after, although I didn't actually join till a few months later. I talk about FR all the time and have won a number of converts, whether as members or lurkers and the bulk of the emails I send are links to threads on FR. It always amazes me how much non-FReepers miss. I try to help the ones I know realize that they're being lied to by what passes for news.

[Alas Babylon!]

Exactly. Vini, Vidi, FReepi.

I came, I saw, I FReeped!

[hemogoblin]

I have turned on three people at my massively liberal workplace (newspaper) to FR in the last few months. Two of them are libs, albeit fence-sitting ones.

Also, since I have been reading FR, I have been winning arguments. This place has sound, fact-based ammunition for every debate.

Thanks y'all.

[RobFromGa]

It's actually Hoosier's KY Pilot.

Be careful, this KY person is unstable at times.

[backhoe]

The best part is that it really ticks off the liberals.

Exactly- and a funny thing? As a right-winger, I really believe that people are better off with more knowledge and information, as opposed to more ignorance... and that really drives left-wingers nuts- how can they argue with that?

[backhoe]

Hello, Babylon- we're going to drive the left crazy with information overload.

[Leo Carpathian]

>>More and more, the topics discussed on FR end up on talk radio shows. It is apparent that just about every talk radio show monitors this website. If not the host himself (or herself), then a staffer who condenses the best replies on a given subject into a "cheat sheet."<<

I wonder how many talk show hosts contribute to FR fund. They make bucks out of FR work. They should give credit to their sources of wisdom and tell the world where they gidit.

Let's Roll!

[DesertWalker]

When I started working with the Arpanet (later to be called the Internet) in the mid 1980's I saw that this could be a way to totally bypass the corrupt propaganda machine that the "mainstream media" had become. But the bandwidth and convenience of use wasn't there - it was pretty slow and crude. The thought I had, though, was that the Internet could grow into something like the Founding Fathers used before the Revolution: Committees of Correspondence.

These were people known to each other personally or through reputation who corresponded by post, usually in code. Ben Franklin was a great code maker in their group. They could discuss things that would have gotten them arrested had the contents been public.

Well, Free Republic is the first really big modern step to what the Founders perfected in the 1700's. And this has a loooong way to go - blogging is supplanting the New York Times, vlogging is almost ready for prime time, and the power of the technology is only up to about 1/4 of what I think it can do. There's a long way to go Freepers - carry on.

[jigsaw]

Be careful, this KY person is unstable at times.

Doesn't he make jelly or sumthin?

[doug from upland]

While I agree totally that we have influence and are watched by the rest of the media, let's not call them fascists. It weakens our argument. Airhead? Fine. Partisan? Fine. Foolish? Fine. RATS? Fine. Lying b*stards? Fine. But to use terms like Nazi and fascist, diminishes the real horror that was Nazism and fascism.

[shiva]

Are there Freeper T-Shirts?

[tristam]

We need to get shirts printed up and bumber stickers that say something like "Ask me what a FReeper is!". Or "Ask me about Free Republic.", along with small business cards we can pass out to the curious with the web site logo and address.......