My Open Letter to the MSM:
When I was growing up and a young woman, news was reported, not manufactured. I no longer watch TV “news,” with the exception of NPR, Meet the Press, Keith Olbermann though let’s admit it, he goes a bit over the top also), and Morning Express from time to time.
My letter concerns some recent manufactured news, and I wonder if anyone cares anymore about the attempt by the media to control what we see and hear. I am a regular (most days and nights) blog reader and poster on the Obama website. Our electronic community is vibrant, enthusiastic, incredibly intelligent and OPEN. We regularly see posts that we call “Trolls” that appear only to disrupt and anger our community. We (the blog posters) have developed all kinds of tactics to respond to these posters, including providing unsolicited recipes, RID (Report, Ignore, Donate) and TID (Troll Inspired Donation). We (and I know I speak for all on the blogs) encourage and engage in lively discussion about issues both political and humane. We are unafraid of challenges to our positions, and we love to convert non-Obama folks to the cause of his election.
While the above is the background, here is the issue: on Tuesday night the first of July, I was on the blogs and we had an absolute tidal wave of Trolls, far more than usual. The next day Obama bloggers post that the media is reporting a story that there are a great number of dissenters and that Obama is losing support among his own supporters as evidenced by the blog posts. My point is that this story seems to be completely manufactured, with an obvious intention to persuade watchers that somehow Obama is losing support.
If the Obama electronic community of blog posters is news, here is why: we are a large, incredibly diverse and devoted group, talking and supporting each other while we support the campaign of Barack Obama for President with our time, talent and treasure. Now that is the real story.
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