Robin Koerner - "Paradigm Lost: Why the rEVOLution Has Not Been Televised"

[TruckinMike]

Great perspective! And nice writing too.
+rep!

 

[Natural Citizen]

Nothing personal I just disagree with your thesis.

Was funny that the media were people too but the next scribble reframed the notion in terms of "cable news". The battle for citizenship is where logic is usually lost and the folks rejoin the herd. Classic reframe if you ask me but it is what it is.

 

[Lucille]

bump

 

[Cleaner44]

From the author's Twitter account...

Robin Koerner
@rkoerner

British perm. res. of the USA. Publisher of WatchingAmerica.com. Political commentator at Huffington Post and the Moderate Voice. The original Blue Republican. http://www.watchingamerica.com

 

[Bossobass]

This article has a simple, yet glaring omission:

The people who were identifying playing cards did not have a lucrative vested interest the test results, nor did the testers.

The military industrial complex and the bankers own the media networks, which places a HUGE variable in the analogy. The Revolution is not being televised because the owners of the lion's share of federal welfare dollars own the television broadcast network.

This is a no-brainer. What car manufacturer would run ads (surrounded by "opinion pieces") promoting plug-in electric vehicles or bicycles?

If you offer the alternative solutions, especially when the current solutions have failed miserably, change happens far quicker. Buggy whip factories in the US did not disappear so quickly because a few wise men toured the country talking about the possible advantages of the automobile vs horse-and-carriage. Automobiles were made available, readily and at a cheap price, people saw others using them and immediately saw the advantages.

When candidate Obama drew 10,000 to hear him speak, the media responded (this is from USA Today):

Obama draws 10,000 to California rally

Regularly drawing crowds of 10,000 or more, Democrat Barack Obama has been likened to a rock star so often that it has worn thin.

Last month when RP drew a similar crowd, Fox and the Wash-Po said:

Where's Ron Paul? Campaign slows, though candidate shows no sign of quitting

Why Ron Paul rallies never translate into votes (a pathetic hit piece)

Resistance to a paradigm shift my ass.

Bosso

 

[Carson]

I haven't even finished the article and I can already tell it is the best article I've read in a long time...

but then I just said that yesterday. ???

I may say it again today. This revolution really is now a revolution.

Great Job! robink.

 

[Carson]

 

[ryanmkeisling]

Great article!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

 

[Carson]

robink,

Welcome to the message boards.

 

[Carson]

The article was great though it did stir memories and recollections that feel odd in today's context. Still Gil Scott-Heron is a very powerful poet.

If you missed the sixties and seventies.

 

[Carson]

Any delegates out there that missed this article today?

 

[Jingles]

Also, I like the Paradise Lost reference. Continue to being a true journalist and one who is truly intellectual unlike the majority of the so called media/journalists. You are actually well read/well spoken unlike these fakes journalists who run around as " knowledgeable intellectuals".