Sorry this took a few days to get posted. Have been busy. As noted last week, on Saturday I made my third appearance in as many years at the annual “L.A. Media Reform Summit” sponsored by CA Common Cause. It was again held at Occidental College, and I was honored to serve as their keynote speaker for the first time this year.
Below is the video of my full speech, in which I discussed the serious crisis we now face as our corporate mainstream media hit full fail mode. That point, as I argued, is exemplified by 1) the massive failures of the old “dead tree” media to meet their constitutional responsibilities to help protect the public from bad guys (as illustrated by the NYTime’s months of damaging and flagrant misreporting on the ACORN “Pimp” Hoax, as we’ve been covering at The BRAD BLOG for months), and 2) the full, rightwing take-over of nearly every inch of the public’s broadcast spectrum by a handful of corporations that do not meet their FCC license obligations to manage those airwaves in the public’s interest (as we’ve been covering at The BRAD BLOG and elsewhere for years).
I also discussed your responsibility in doing something about both of those serious problems!
The video is posted below the fold, since it’s about 40 minutes in all, and might otherwise get interupted by the main page’s auto-refresh routines. Enjoy. And get to work!…
Hey there Brad you RULE!
Brad,
On the topic of media reform, I wonder what the reaction of the MSM will be to “Proving Election Fraud”, my new book which points out
a) the media’s avoidance of proper TRUE VOTE ELECTION ANALYSIS, while at the same time
b) engaging in a permanent lockdown on discussion of election fraud and
c)promoting non-stop propaganda designed to misdirect the public with stories about NON-EXISTENT VOTER FRAUD fraud rather than
d)exposing the dirty little secret of endemic, pervasive ELECTION FRAUD.
http://www.authorhouse.com/BookStore/ItemDetail.aspx?bookid=66793
http://richardcharnin.com/
Right, branding an ironic twisted lie with the name “election fraud” can only be matched by the lives lost by US supporting dictatorships in the name of “democracy”.
I look fwd to 40 min of live Brad Blog – with Canning in da house! If you’re rich take heart because at 16:06 or so a camel goes thru the eye of a needle – a miracle dead ringer shot.
I’m thinking no teleprompter was present.
It’s very important that people know what the New York Times did here. Brad did a perfect job of presenting a longer story then people in America are used to hearing, but kicked butt!
Some people can die tomorrow knowing they tried, and that’s something special. Your worst enemy can never take that away.
Buy the video and spread the word!
To simplify things:
The New York Times lied.
The Democrats, (large D), RUSHED to purchase voting machines that have lost elections for them.
The Democrats, (large D), RUSHED to defund an organization which won an election for them DESPITE the machines.
You decide.
Stick with the “winners?” Stick with Republicans?
Hell no!
Where we go from here is anybody’s guess, but I have to believe we will get there!
Excellent video.
It’s a very big shame that I didn’t know about this “controversy” until I came to your website.