On Tuesday, December 3, 2002, at 07:45 AM, Carrol Cox wrote:
>
> Jeffrey Fisher wrote:
>>
>>> First a fact: The enemy owns, and will _always_ own the TV stations.
>>
>> defeatist. you've just written off the bulk of mass media. if the
>> enemy
>> can own it, so can we. it just takes work.
>
> Ooops. Conversation aborted. I can't imagine any set of circumstances,
> no matter how bizarred, that would give substantial space on the mass
> media to the building of a mass (i.e., non-elecotoral) movement. It
> would be much easier to overthrow the state than to (a) get enough time
> on mass media to organize mass demonstrations and (b) get anyone to
> listen to you if you were on TV. This is mere fantasia.
>
> Sorry.
come on, carrol. i presume your one-on-one conversations go differently from this? we're not in a shoutfest; we're having a rational conversation. if you can't bring me out of fantasía in this kind of conversation, then how or where will it happen? or are you just writing me off? if so, you're basically writing off everyone in la-la land who thinks, for example, fox is actually balanced . . .
the tactic has, however, relieved you of the burden of replying to any other points in the post.
but i'm not going to put in the effort if you're not . . .
j