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Media Issues

 

the reason it costs so much money to get elected is because of how much it costs for television advertising ... can have an entire network, like C-SPAN, that could be devoted to the election process. ... it's not about buying prime-time spots ... public airwaves have been leased, and it is part of their charter to serve the public good. But they fight it ... We could require networks to have blocks of time

 

Reforming the media is essential to improving candidates and voter education ... make use of local media

 

Are the big corporations that are buying up media going to tell you about those issues detrimental to them? No.

 

plenty of candidates saying we started out with positive messages, the other side got nasty, we "had" to attack back ... the only people who win are the networks and ad agencies who make the ads

 

Sound byte structure plays to that ... we need the whole context, longer presentation

 

Must have more publically owned networks ... more resources, to look better ... more crews, support staff ...

 

put technology in the system as much as other networks ... on-demand access, online (like they do with the government, but not other produced media) ... net is still the way to get information from an independent source

 

if I had to choose between more money on CATS and having a server that supported a bloomington portal, accessible to anyong from hard-core fascists to anarchists, provided hosting for things (like this meeting) and people know to go there ... we don't have a local internet portal to cover local issues

 

couple with community access channels ... everybody doesn't have a computer at home, and there isn't enough equipment to support it

 

use internet to get people informed, who then go out to interact with the rest of the community ... We need to have a better information loop for activists

 

And not scared of that word: activism

 

Have to have face-to-face active campaigning, petitioned events ... That's what it comes down to

 

The survey on underemployment is only any good if you get 40,000 people talked to. ... We need to get something on all these channels

 

Gaping need for more activist, trans-media network with this core group ... not working together, being proprietary about their organizations and issues

 

WFIU/NPR ... local paper ... talk to my son (who lives in Germany) ... get Mother Jones, about as close as any objective view that comes from over ... Molly Ivins

 

WFHB - a non-profit station, daily local news, eclectic in style, public issues, Democracy Now ... more radical and alternative than college ... guy records things off of ham radio ... BBC in the morning

 

What about a low-power FM license here? ... People for low-power stations get drowned out ... it seems to me we should have been able to drag more people over here by contacting grassroots organization ... would we be better off doing things about local media?

 

We need a new organization ... not necessarily a new radio station. It took 20 years to get that community station to be established.

 

letters to editor, and community columns are where the messages get through

 

If we can come to the public with a significant, useful piece of work, to say this is what the organization does ... this is an organization that is willing to talk about anything ... The organizations I admire most in the state of Indiana, don't have a presence in Bloomington

 

Most action takes place in Indianapolis

 

telephone is another form of media ... non-profits exempt from the do-not-call list

 

 

Summary:

  • Cost as a function of limited access
  • Structure of television presentation
  • media consolidation and ownership - filter away negative issues, much less diversity
  • local information portal (internet? radio? television? ... multi-channel important)


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