MilkieMJan 12, 2023
DidiQ

With CNN and Twitter making a strong right turns, this is needed now more than ever:

“If the left does not develop a means of mass communication in the US, there is coming a time when they will have a message to deliver but they will not have the ability to deliver it. Even now most channels of communication are controlled from the right.” Jon Smyth

Jan 11, 2023 at 1:07pmWeb
Show threadUnderten OverJan 11, 2023
@DidiQ That's why we're going to mastodon. We can setup our own servers in a decentralized network that is difficult for the capitalists to destroy.
Show threadKeith_RJan 11, 2023

@DidiQ

Welcome to the last thirty years in the UK...

Show threadSmokeyGeoJan 12, 2023
@DidiQ what if you’re not interested in a slant left or right but just want facts?
Show threadTofu GolemJan 12, 2023

@DidiQ
CNN has been conservative for a long time. Now they are even more conservative.

I stopped watching MSNBC because they got too conservative for my tastes.

Thankfully, there are newspapers from countries that still have a free press available for free on the Internet.

Show threadAgoraJan 12, 2023
@DidiQ
It's one of my pet peeves 😡😡😡We don't even have someone like Charlie Kirk on our side. No wonder people think that Dems take their support for granted. The world is moving right. If we don't do something soon...I shudder!
Show threadguaikeriJan 12, 2023
@DidiQ There are many leftist media companies. Leftists need to start supporting and promoting leftist media companies.
Show threadRobert DeWolfe 🌹Jan 12, 2023
@DidiQ As in Canada
Show threadTengrainJan 12, 2023

@DidiQ

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This. And it is already too late (probably).

As @driftglass says (Paraphrasing) it doesn’t matter how many silver bullets you have if you don’t have the gun.

Show threadItsBrilliantJan 12, 2023

@DidiQ, YES, already in play! I've long wished for better messaging from the Dems, but now see the Mainstream Media is the real issue. All now owned by either right wing or far-right CEOs.

The 'her emails' story proved it in 2016. Talk about a non-sexy, dull story! Yet it stayed on top of MSM for months - that made no logical sense. But sex stories - the Fallwell's for ex. - lasted a nanosecond. Weird.

Show threadBabyJ_MackJan 12, 2023
@ItsBrilliant @DidiQ It was clinched for me when every single story about “her emails” was started with “the most hated and distrusted woman in America” …
Show threadbenjamin melançonJan 12, 2023
@DidiQ 100%. Ideally we have a broad range of mass media that is truthful and not bent toward billionaires, but for now it will take a ton of us working together to get even a few messages a day out to most any definition of everybody. How do we all get to decide which communications "go mass"? People with #VisionsUnite are working on a hack for this— having a large (statistically significant) random sampling of people in the communications network itself take a turn for each message.
Show threadSober-Wan KenobiJan 12, 2023
@DidiQ Disagree. Stay in reality
Show threadcaseyjonesedJan 12, 2023
@DidiQ the time for the message is NOW!
Show threadAllyson Williams ✅Jan 12, 2023
@DidiQ We had Twitter.
Show threadTim Ward ⭐🇪🇺🔶 #FBPEJan 15, 2023

@DidiQ *Is* there any "left" in the USA?

Or is the fact that we over here are unaware of any such thing precisely what is being referred to here?

Show threadDiamond JoyJan 15, 2023

@DidiQ Mike Bloomberg? Oprah? Someone else?

We need a 24-hour channel that debunks every claim by the Red Rot. SM isn't enough to counteract their lies and US media is all in on fascism.

Show threadPirateRoJan 15, 2023
@DidiQ this is very much like the effort to harvest or trap failed or abandoned radio stations across the country to spew out religious intolerance and hatred. It must be stopped.
Show thread⁂ Fish Id WardrobeMar 10, 2023
@DidiQ seems relevant to the UK, too