"the left has no viable alternative to right wing media" is both something that's probably true and also the first slide of a pitch deck someone is about to use to suck up a billion dollars of democratic party donations
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At this point? It wouldn't come anywhere near close to working. Democrats/liberals are now so deeply used to and loving attacking their own over nothing. All it'd do is just make things categorically worse.
Also exhibit A on why you should not be dragging Clinton and Carville out ever again because who the fuck signed the telecommunications act of 96 that set this up!?!?
It shouldn't. We can't participate in propaganda and misinformation. Somehow we need to end those abuses not make them part of our toolset. Anyone suggesting otherwise is as unscrupulous as the Republicans.
If you want to win back the information landscape you're gonna have to light giant piles of money on fire repeatedly for the next 20 years. This will please the New Gods of the Internet and Cable Television and they will bless us with favorable nielsen ratings
We’ve tried. Remember Air America? My theory is that liberals don’t need info repeated ad nauseam, and don’t invent shit to garner attention. An hour or two a week of MSNBC, and I’m good to go.
Me neither. Once Cheeto gets his DOJ set up, and appointments some FCC flacks, I bet he sets them on broadcast licenses. Be ironic if we keep PBS because the Koch Foundation funds it, wouldn’t it?
(2) Perhaps the last left radio network remaining, the Pacifica network, which has outlets in NYC and Berkeley, CA, among others https://pacificanetwork.org/
(5) The Village Voice, once the home of notables like Alexander Cockburn, Jack Newfield, and Wayne Barrett, survives in vestigial form. https://www.villagevoice.com/
(6) Daily Kos https://www.dailykos.com/ and Digby’s Hullabaloo https://digbysblog.net/ are useful sites. I could go on. The left media infrastructure has suffered a long slow decline because of lack of interest and funding. I could go on.
I've been swinging around ideas of what a lefty style of infowars might look like but goddamn do I ever hate the idea of being any kind of public figure.
I would like to be a left wing infowars style public figure (like Alex Jones himself used to be, actually) but I'm hopelessly uncharismatic with a punchable face
Not getting into doxxing but it would have to on some level revolve around ambushing Pundits/Politicians. Like how Alex Jones or Nick Feuntes (shudder) would constantly appear uninvited to GOP functions just hoping for a clout boost from a viral clip of them shouting at whoever.
That’s because actual leftists constantly call out rich people on their bullshit and point out capitalisms flaws. (That and their motives are to help the general public.)
Right wingers suck billionaire dick thus they get billionaire funding. (That and they defend the upper class’s terrible actions)
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every new approach is going to look like we're lighting cash on fire to pull some abstract election lever we don't know will work/help
The corporate media is dominated by the Right, and we are the worse for that.
Right wingers suck billionaire dick thus they get billionaire funding. (That and they defend the upper class’s terrible actions)