re: #313 A Mom Anon

I know, so were the Iraq war protests. But it was focused on government, not media. There were HUGE protests all over the country that received little to no media coverage. What if we turned away from the government focus and turned all that energy onto the media outlets?

For example, this idiotic plane coverage of CNN should be turned on its head with an influx of phone calls, emails and tons of people showing up right on their damned doorstep. Make it known we’re sick of not being informed and people with no concept of journalism reporting the so called “news”.

Their ratings shot through the roof during the shitty plane coverage.

I don’t understand why you can’t get large groups of people on board with that. You can when it comes to government. Maybe it’s because of the amount of distrust of the government that’s been sown over the last couple of decades, I don’t know.

I don’t even get what you think would then happen. Government officials respond to people showing up on their doorstep because those people represent voters—but they still take polls and stuff like that, in-person protests are effective but mainly as a way of communicating that you have a lot of support.

Media companies don’t really have a front-door—you can camp outside their building protesting them, and you know what they’ll do? They’ll cover it, and broadcast it, and enjoy the ratings from it.

The economic fulcrum of media companies is not them themselves but their advertisers and sponsors. They don’t depend on us as customers, we’re not their customers—the advertising companies are.