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Originally Posted by GX You have all hit the nail on the head with your prescient comments as far as Im concerned. There is however one more important factor here that needs to be addressed: The media. As of now, 9 corporations own over 90% of the print, radio and television media. It was not like this during the social and political upheavals of the 60's and 70's and it is my guess that the government allowed media consolidation so as to eliminate competition and to foster corporate and governmental control of the information flow. IMHO, the media barons choose which candidate they wish to give saturation coverage and which ones they wish to ignore. Ron Paul was making a lot of headway in polling and the early debates which should have garnered appropriate media coverage but they deliberately chose to ignore it.
In this society, the competitive, accurate, fair flow of information needs to considered as essential to maintaining a democracy by and for the people and the media conglomerates should be forced to divest their holdings to a bunch of smaller companies as was the case in the 60's and 70's. | Yes, this is becoming more and more of an issue, the last presidential election the libertarian party actually pulled more votes than the Green party, but did they get any press for it? Nada.
I have an idea that I believe could help fix some of these type of issues, which I have posted on my blog. This is more related to the corporate ownership that I mentioned in my other post. I have been leery of posting it here as I do not wish to be seen as self promoting. But I am interested in getting some feed back from this group, so here goes nothing... My Idea
You need to read it with the understanding that it is in rough form and will have to have all the details hammered out.
Any feedback or criticism would be welcome  . |
Very interesting idea William Blue! For the rest of the board, I will give a quick summary. WilliamBlue suggests that the $3 dollars we use to check off on our tax returns for a presidential campaign fund goes instead to create a lobby that represents american citizens and keeps the politicians in check. See the details on his link. Im all for it WilliamBlue, the one monkey wrench I see in it is who will decide what type of poll questions this lobby ask the citizens. You will have republicans, democrats, greens, native americans, black panthers etc. wanting to formulate poll questions skewed to their interests that they wish to present to the public e.g. should we allow the lakota indians to secede? Should we free Mumia? Should we save the whales? There are thousands of issues and questions out there. See where Im getting at here...Your thoughts?