This is not a case you can dabble in. Most of the people in the MSM are dilettantes. They make up their mind about something first, then go read a few books and articles that confirm their beliefs, and finally regurgitate the same ideas in a new article. In the insular world of corporate-funded academics and journalists, this is all you're expected to do. This is all you're paid to do. If you care about your career, you won't wander off the reservation.
How can there be a war if only one army takes the field?
All this focus on petitioning pols is not working. They are long past caring UNLESS there is a political cost for them to do so. There is no cost if there is no BROAD-REACHING POSTING going on, reaching a more general audience.
The preparations of the 50th, IMO have completely failed to take into account our new media environment, in which THERE WILL BE ABSOLUTELY NOTHING IN THE MSM OTHER THAN CORPORATE DISMISSAL, so its either us posting wider into non-JFK related sites [i.e. more general readers to show them WHY it matters] or a war with only one army taking the field.
..taking the field....taking the field...taking the field.... It's simply not happening.
Nathaniel Heidenheimer Wrote:"And believe me, it will be a war."
I hope so, but I am increasingly skeptical.
How can there be a war if only one army takes the field?
All this focus on petitioning pols is not working. They are long past caring UNLESS there is a political cost for them to do so. There is no cost if there is no BROAD-REACHING POSTING going on, reaching a more general audience.
The preparations of the 50th, IMO have completely failed to take into account our new media environment, in which THERE WILL BE ABSOLUTELY NOTHING IN THE MSM OTHER THAN CORPORATE DISMISSAL, so its either us posting wider into non-JFK related sites [i.e. more general readers to show them WHY it matters] or a war with only one army taking the field.
..taking the field....taking the field...taking the field.... It's simply not happening.
Nor is it likely to happen.
It should have been a war 50 years ago.
But that's another story.
I couldn't agree with you more, Nathaniel. The paper tigers will be prowling Dealey Plaza. You can "hear" their growls already.
Signing petitions. Extending three fingers into the air. "Negotiating" with accessories to regicide.
I can see the self-described warriors now ... playing war, running through Dealey Plaza wearing too-small plastic helmets, their self-anointed leaders screaming "CHARGE!" in the ear-splitting tones of castrati.
As I noted more than 15 years ago:
We are at war with the murderers of John F. Kennedy[.]
And I am sickened by the mercy we extend to a merciless enemy each time we treat with collegiality their disgraced surrogates.
But before we can know our enemy, we must know ourselves. Define ourselves. Be at peace with and possess the courage of our convictions. Unite in a common crusade, the substance of which renders our superficial stylistic differences meaningless.
Who are we?
We are the Lakota of AIM. We are the Jews of the Warsaw Ghetto uprising. We are the Viet Cong of Tet. And yes, we are the Palestinians of Sabra and Shatila.
Nathaniel Heidenheimer Wrote:The preparations of the 50th, IMO have completely failed to take into account our new media environment, in which THERE WILL BE ABSOLUTELY NOTHING IN THE MSM OTHER THAN CORPORATE DISMISSAL, so its either us posting wider into non-JFK related sites [i.e. more general readers to show them WHY it matters] or a war with only one army taking the field.
I've studied the corporate media's coverage of the JFK assassination quite a bit, and sadly it's been like this since 1964. They have regularly trotted out "documentaries" to back up the WR, "special issues" of magazines to gush about the latest lone nutter book. A few rare exceptions like Fred J. Cook and Jack Anderson, but mostly the alternative press has always been the place to go for criticism of the WR.
Today it's so much worse. The news industry is now in the hands of 5 multinational conglomerates who make everything from diapers to missiles. Yes, we have the internet, but the way things are going, I wonder how long it will be before the NSA/CIA/Pentagon decide to take it under their control.
Tracy Riddle Wrote:Yes, we have the internet, but the way things are going, I wonder how long it will be before the NSA/CIA/Pentagon decide to take it under their control.
Or those bills which Congress periodically comes dangerously close to passing, allowing IPs to have control over what you can access. Corporate control and intelligence monitoring are two faces of the same coin.
Tracy Riddle Wrote:Yes, we have the internet, but the way things are going, I wonder how long it will be before the NSA/CIA/Pentagon decide to take it under their control.
Or those bills which Congress periodically comes dangerously close to passing, allowing IPs to have control over what you can access. Corporate control and intelligence monitoring are two faces of the same coin.
Indeed.
And so they exaggerate threats which they never intend to carry out against one of their primary sources of information.
Conduct a cost/benefit analysis from THEIR point of view.
Uh Charles, I don't see how I extended Rosenbaum any mercy. And part 2 will be even worse.
Now, unfortunately, I can only do so much. I am not a millionaire and I work for a living.
So I spend much of my spare time writing what Nathaniel has called a "great book" and writing critical articles.
Now, to fight a war, one has to have foot soldiers as well as people doing the heavy mental lifting that destroys the other side's arguments.
We have maybe, at least as far as I know, maybe 2-3 people doing that. One person cannot do everything.
I would hope that with EF terminated, and the likes of Mack, Colby, Carroll etc not here, others would pick up the baton. Its not that hard to post something at DU for example.
As per the media, I enlisted an agent who is trying something there also. He actually has a couple of bites. Although no deal yet.
Has anyone else enlisted an agent to try yet?
(Sound of crickets in the night)
Its one thing to sit back and say we should be doing something. Or to call people paper tigers for trying to get into Dealey Plaza, and signing petitions.
