[lbo-talk] Signs of the times

[wrobert at uci.edu]

And if they genuinely think that, they would be wrong.  I'm not denying
that media can't help inform and create forms of common sense in a
movement, and to contribute to a sort of imagined community, but
ultimately a movement is made up of coordinated political action, more
specifically masses of people involved in this activity, civil rights,
ACT-UP, feminism, these were political movements, watching a tv program,
whether Democracy Now or Glenn Beck does not constitute this, it's an
involvement in a spectacle.  Once again, what is really remarkable about
this organizing is how little was accomplished with so much.  robert wood


> Nope. But creating an audience for it does. Ask anyone in the
> "alternative media."
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> SA
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> wrobert at uci.edu wrote:
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>> Watching a television program does not constitute a political movement.
>> robert wood
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>>> Sure it's a movement. How do you think they got that kind of media
>>> access and financial power? By creating a strong conservative movement.
>>> You can bring the Fox to cable but you can't make people watch it. If a
>>> left-wing Fox News materialized - especially one as far left as Fox is
>>> far right - no one would watch it. Compare Olbermann/Maddow's ratings
>>> to
>>> O'Reilly's. Compare Rush Limbaugh's ratings to whoever the top left
>>> talk
>>> radio star is. Forty years ago, believe it or not, the right wing was
>>> *for* the Fairness Doctrine, because they said it was the only thing
>>> preventing total liberal domination of the airwaves.
>>>
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