Why The Media Does not Matter

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Its time to change gears in this campaign!

(not sure if this is the right place to post this but I need to grab peoples attention)

We need to look forward past the national convention. Yes we need delegates, but we need to look beyond that for a moment.

I'm going to prove to you why the media does not matter. The campaign has spent a ton of cash on advertising, blimps etc etc, only to get a low show in most primaries. How effective has media advertising been in gaining popular votes?

"We the people" (core support) have forgotten what brought us to fight so hard for this cause. We know the truth about the monetary system being broken, we've seen films like "freedom to fascism" or "Money Masters". Wasn't that the eye opener for most that brought us to fight so hard for this cause?

Why aren't we canvasing the truth so we can exponentially grow our core support, outside the official campaign?

Seems like the public is burnt out or shell shocked on politics. They know something is wrong with government, but they just cant put their finger on it. The most valuable weapon we have to win this battle is the truth.

We have 2 battles in front of us. Nomination, and Election. To win the election we must gain popular support of the public, and so far everything we've done hasn't worked well enough in that respect.

If we're not capable of winning the popular vote come November with a groundswell of core support, the media will steal the election with full tilt spin- shark attack feeding frenzy. The media is part of the problem not the solution.

We need to build core support the same way we came to be the core support; "with the truth". Once the truth is out, to the masses, the media won't matter anyway; people will see right through them, just like we do now. There not going to help us, and the money is more effectively spent getting the truth out with powerful DVD's, and spread using grass roots efforts.

These powerful DVD's can do the job in winning over the most entrenched people, where no amount of campaign rhetoric could.

Help get the "truth bomb project" off the ground!

http://www.ronpaulforums.com/showthread.php?t=118629

 

[harley95]

You know ..it's funny ....some people don't want to hear the truth. I've given copies of Alex Jones, Arron Russo dvds to friends, family, etc. One neighbor and one of my brothers are now hard core supporters, but the rest don"t seem to care. This makes me madder than hell, they know the truth and chose to ignore it, maybe out of fear of what others may think of them (un-American). Myself, I don"t give a shit what people think, we're the true Patriots. You're right though ..... even after the election is over ...we keep pluging away. What makes it all worth it ...is ...when you do find that one person who will listen and then gets off his ass and does something.

 

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Most of the people who have actually watched the video are deeply effected by it.

That is if they will sit down and watch it.

 

[rmholla]

Yes, getting most people to watch a documentary is difficult. Americans would rather plop down in front of the TV at night and numb their minds. Most Americans can tell you more about their favorite actor or sports figure than they can tell you about how the economy works.

Most Americans never take the time to draft a budget for their family, they really cannot fathom why it is so important in regards to the government.

In my opinion, financial ignorance is the biggest problem in America. People spend tons of money on cable TV and junk food and yet they cannot pay their mortgages. It is sad.

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[ErikBlack]

The media does matter. There is a difference between media advertising and PR stunts like blimps and "the news". People are inherently distrustful of advertising because they know they are being sold something and there is no accountability on the part of the advertiser. They can say whatever they want. Every advertiser says "my product is great" and then the competition comes on five minutes later and says the same thing. But people trust the news. They don't realize that the news is not news, but entertainment and propaganda. Most Americans equate being intelligent to being "well informed" so they watch the news like you would read a book and they believe that they are being educated. The only way to influence the modern American electorate en masse is to appeal to them through news, which is controlled by the media conglomertates, which are controlled by the same group of people as the government, the military industrial complex and the banking elite. People trust the anchorman on their nightly news more than the kid at their door handing out political flyers. If there is a conflict in stories between the two they are going to trust what they heard on TV. That is why canvassing doesn't work. It lacks legitimacy. The news has legitimacy. It doesn't deserve it. But it has it.