The Growing Backlash Against Liberal Media Bias

If you think media bias is bad now, brace yourself.


It’s no secret that students these days are being taught to be biased in the direction of the “progressive” point of view. The trend in journalism “education” is even more pronounced.


For example, Burlington College in the People’s Republic of Vermont offers a degree in “media activism,” symbolized by a clenched fist. The college says, “The degree is conceived explicitly for those who want to become media activists. Through technical training rooted in history and theory, students are encouraged to apply media making technique, craft, and art to issues of advocacy, activism and social change.”


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Lesbian Activist’s Surprisingly Candid Speech: Gay Marriage Fight Is a ‘Lie’ to Destroy Marriage

A 2012 speech by Masha Gessen, an author and outspoken activist for the LGBT community, is just now going viral and it includes a theory that many supporters of traditional marriage have speculated about for years: The push for gay marriage has less to do with the right to marry – it is about diminishing and eventually destroying the institution of marriage and redefining the “traditional family.”

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Help build an army of conservative activists...

7/30/2010 by John Eidson (via email/PART 2) - Enlighten the uninformed - A recent national survey showed that twice as many Americans identify themselves as conservative as do those who consider themselves liberal. If there are more of us than there are of them --- and there are -- then how did Democrats win such a resounding victory in the last election? The answer is because millions of apathetic voters still habitually get what little news they expose themselves to from the heavily-biased mainstream media. Many otherwise conservtive people rarely watch Fox News, listen to talk radio or read conservative books, magazines or blogs. Most of these political couch potatoes have no idea how radically the country they love is being changed. Make it your job to help enlighten them.

A CONSERVATIVE VOTE IS A TERRIBLE THING TO WASTE
If you have frinds or family members who are clueless about what's happening to America, try your best to get them to watch Fox News (particularly The Glenn Beck Program) and listen to conservative talk radio. Urge them to sign up for free daily emails from The Heritage Foundation and DickMorris.com, check out the Drudge Report, read the online opinion pages of The Wall Street Journal and the Washington Examiner, and frequent blogs such as Powerline, Michelle Malkin and American Thinker. And, make sure that all conservative-minded people you know are registered to vote.

John asks... When is the last time you added new names to your political email group? If you're sending emails to the same people all the time, you're not doing as much as you could to spread the conservative message. Adding new people to your e-group isn't hard to do -- all you have to do is ask. Expanding your list by just one name each week will make a big difference in alerting more people to what's happening to their country. Read More......

Alinsky's 12 Rules for Radicals

REFERENCE MATERIAL - SAL ALINSKY'S 12 RULES FOR RADICALS include notes [in parenthesis) by Craig Miyamoto, APR, Fellow Public Relations Society of America (PRSA), the largest professional organization of public relations specialists representing business, consulting firms, government, and associations.:

RULE 1: "Power is not only what you have, but what the enemy thinks you have." Power is derived from 2 main sources - money and people. "Have-Nots" must build power from flesh and blood. (These are two things of which there is a plentiful supply. Government and corporations always have a difficult time appealing to people, and usually do so almost exclusively with economic arguments.)

RULE 2: "Never go outside the expertise of your people." It results in confusion, fear and retreat. Feeling secure adds to the backbone of anyone. (Organizations under attack wonder why radicals don't address the "real" issues. This is why. They avoid things with which they have no knowledge.)

RULE 3: "Whenever possible, go outside the expertise of the enemy." Look for ways to increase insecurity, anxiety and uncertainty. (This happens all the time. Watch how many organizations under attack are blind-sided by seemingly irrelevant arguments that they are then forced to address.)

RULE 4: "Make the enemy live up to its own book of rules." If the rule is that every letter gets a reply, send 30,000 letters. You can kill them with this because no one can possibly obey all of their own rules. (This is a serious rule. The besieged entity's very credibility and reputation is at stake, because if activists catch it lying or not living up to its commitments, they can continue to chip away at the damage.)

RULE 5: "Ridicule is man's most potent weapon." There is no defense. It's irrational. It's infuriating. It also works as a key pressure point to force the enemy into concessions. (Pretty crude, rude and mean, huh? They want to create anger and fear.)

RULE 6: "A good tactic is one your people enjoy." They'll keep doing it without urging and come back to do more. They're doing their thing, and will even suggest better ones. (Radical activists, in this sense, are no different that any other human being. We all avoid "un-fun" activities, and but we revel at and enjoy the ones that work and bring results.)

RULE 7: "A tactic that drags on too long becomes a drag." Don't become old news. (Even radical activists get bored. So to keep them excited and involved, organizers are constantly coming up with new tactics.)

RULE 8: "Keep the pressure on. Never let up." Keep trying new things to keep the opposition off balance. As the opposition masters one approach, hit them from the flank with something new. (Attack, attack, attack from all sides, never giving the reeling organization a chance to rest, regroup, recover and re-strategize.)

RULE 9: "The threat is usually more terrifying than the thing itself." Imagination and ego can dream up many more consequences than any activist. (Perception is reality. Large organizations always prepare a worst-case scenario, something that may be furthest from the activists' minds. The upshot is that the organization will expend enormous time and energy, creating in its own collective mind the direst of conclusions. The possibilities can easily poison the mind and result in demoralization.)

RULE 10: "If you push a negative hard enough, it will push through and become a positive." Violence from the other side can win the public to your side because the public sympathizes with the underdog. (Unions used this tactic. Peaceful [albeit loud] demonstrations during the heyday of unions in the early to mid-20th Century incurred management's wrath, often in the form of violence that eventually brought public sympathy to their side.)

RULE 11: "The price of a successful attack is a constructive alternative." Never let the enemy score points because you're caught without a solution to the problem. (Old saw: If you're not part of the solution, you're part of the problem. Activist organizations have an agenda, and their strategy is to hold a place at the table, to be given a forum to wield their power. So, they have to have a compromise solution.)

RULE 12: Pick the target, freeze it, personalize it, and polarize it." Cut off the support network and isolate the target from sympathy. Go after people and not institutions; people hurt faster than institutions. (This is cruel, but very effective. Direct, personalized criticism and ridicule works.) Read More......