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(The help mbair needs is opinion and advice. Cool project - promoted by elwood)
So you all may or may not know me as guerrilla vlogger. I've been a blogger for about 4 years now. I started at dailykos and I have to admit that I was a lurker for a long, long time. I only signed up to buy a membership so I could turn off the ads. I started writing diaries when something really upset me or inspired me. I'm not very successful at this stuff, but I sure try real hard and I think this use of my time is very worthwhile, obviously.
I wasn't very active during the 2004 election season. I participated in a few candidate smackdowns at DailyKos, but I was really busy and I'm just a regular person that blogs on the side. I don't fancy myself any kind of journalist or political pro, I'm strictly an amateur. I also don't want to use the NH Speaks project as a springboard or a stepping stone to a future career. I used to be an apathetic political junkie, but I've changed. This time around I'm not going to be just a spectator and consumer of media.
I started generating my own content last spring with video blogging in Portsmouth, NH at a DFNH Edwards event on April 20th. It was horrible, the video was poor quality and I never even finished the damn diary, but I learned a lot and by the summer I was flying around the country stalking my Presidential preference to get him some good coverage.
But now I'm taking my version of the people powered media, citizen journalism and guerrilla vlogging franchise to the next level. That's where you come in.
I don't blog about Edwards at DailyKos much for a variety of reasons, most of them ugly and perverse, but I just watched a bit of "journalism" on C-SPAN through the web and what I saw was exceedingly ugly and perverse. Paul Starobin of the National Journal is just another slave on the Plantation, folks. Just now I viewed him toting the weary load on C-SPAN this morning.
Anyone know why there is a news blackout on Edwards? Anyone know why the media can't be burdened to cover Edwards in the constant stream of coverage on the horse race? Anyone know why the only candidate with an actual plan to cover every man woman and child with health care in this country can't get on the tube anymore - unless some is calling him a faggot or a bigot of course? Anyone know why Edwards has turned into "he who cannot be named?"
(I generally don't promote non-local stuff, or cross-posted stuff, but I'm 20 minutes into this video, and it's a must see. Not necessarily shocking, but a forceful, coherent, tour-de-force of what we know, and what we must do... - promoted by Mike)
cross-posted at dailykos
Moyers went down to Memphis to open the National Conference for Media Reform for more than three thousand people yesterday. The group started as a means to address the issues of media consolidation and the "plantation mentality" pervasive in major news organizations which are killing today's media and in the process our country.
And our favorite American journalist gave a rousing speech. He started out strong, the middle was explosive and he ended with a major earthquake. He focused his remarks on class, the media, the media's performance in the run up to the war and he gave us an historical perspective on the magnitude of the problems that media reformers face today. He also informed me that nothing could be more vitally important to our country today than the needed reform of the our media.
As bloggers, we need to play an important role in that battle.
So you all may or may not know me as guerrilla vlogger. I've been a blogger for about 4 years now. I started at dailykos and I have to admit that I was a lurker for a long, long time. I only signed up to buy a membership so I could turn off the ads. I started writing diaries when something really upset me or inspired me. I'm not very successful at this stuff, but I sure try real hard and I think this use of my time is very worthwhile, obviously.
Moyers went down to Memphis to open the National Conference for Media Reform for more than three thousand people yesterday. The group started as a means to address the issues of media consolidation and the "plantation mentality" pervasive in major news organizations which are killing today's media and in the process our country.
