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What Trumka SHOULD Threaten
Every election cycle, the labor movement alone dumps enough money into the corporate media through the campaigns and PACs that it could have instead created a new television network that would actually report the news all year long through every future election cycle. Rather than threatening to possibly not succeed in persuading working people to vote for corporate candidates, Trumka should threaten to defund the corporate media election bonanza and give us real news.
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Right On! Build alternative media infrastructure. Public access channels, radio and TV segments, columns in the print media. Just remember-- our biggest challenge is the quality of our journalism and reporting, and the quality of our analysis, our communication skills--- David, you're one in a million, you've spent a lifetime building all these skills. Now, you need to build a crew of assistants, apprentices, journeymen-- it seems, that's what Amy Goodman has done lately-- And local peace and justice groups should organize speaking committees, to meet weekly and practice your speeches just like Toastmasters -- WE MUST BECOME THE THINKTANKS not just the "media".
Right On! Build alternative media infrastructure. Public access channels, radio and TV segments, columns in the print media. Just remember-- our biggest challenge is the quality of our journalism and reporting, and the quality of our analysis, our communication skills--- David, you're one in a million, you've spent a lifetime building all these skills. Now, you need to build a crew of assistants, apprentices, journeymen-- it seems, that's what Amy Goodman has done lately-- And local peace and justice groups should organize speaking committees, to meet weekly and practice your speeches just like Toastmasters -- WE MUST BECOME THE THINKTANKS not just the "media".