This article is soooo juicy; as an independent here are my reactions to the paragraphs past the intro;
The hurried efforts by Democrats to find more powerful media voices come after years of carping but little action.
( The Liberals controlled all the Network anchor spots for years, and ratings are falling specificly because liberal viewpoints are out of touch with what Americans think.)
"If you start from the premise that the message was right, which we do, then the problem was that it wasn't getting out to the people," said one official of the Democratic Party who spoke on condition that his name not be used.
( Total nonsense; this is backsliding to preserve status by this group within the movement, pure BS>)
With that sentiment, there is a sense within the leadership ranks that the party erred in not building a media support system after the 2000 presidential election, when it lost the media coordination of the Clinton White House.
( The Party erred in not having any substance, only coallitions of political self interest, they do not connect with the larger population)
"Across the board, we need to muscle up," said John Podesta, the former White House chief of staff for Bill Clinton and now a law professor at Georgetown University. "That means from the Congressional operations to the party committees to the think-tank world to, most significantly, beefing up our capacity to communicate with the public in all forms of media, not just through obscure Internet Web sites but on television and radio."
( What this means is they want more acess to Shout down and drownd out other voices, without saying anything themselves, the liberals have become modern day sophists, repeating lie after lie in an attempt to steal the truth)
For his part, Mr. Podesta is discussing with the Internet entrepreneur Steven T. Kirsch and others the creation of a liberal version of the Heritage Foundation, the conservative research group that, along with others of its kind, is credited with helping start the modern conservative movement. ( dont know Mr Kirsch, but as an entrprenuer he should study Von Mises before spending a centavo on ideas, that he probably had handed to him by the emotional appeal of connectedness with the likes of the clintons, there are a lot of money people who are shallow and happy to assert their influence without even having done the necessary study to support that which they claim to embrace)
Mr. Kirsch, chief executive of the Propel Internet service and a Democratic fund-raiser, said the foundation he and Mr. Podesta envision would do the same for liberals.
( Great employ a bunch of Spinners to crank out new iterations of half truths)
"During the last 10 years the opposition has become more organized and the liberals haven't adapted to counter it," Mr. Kirsch said. "We will have components that will include messaging, message delivery and coordination of progressive groups so progressives will speak with more of a unified voice." ( AHHHA: Now a financial self interest is being alluded at, Mr Kirsch may be about to show his skills as entrprenuer all over again, alas not understanding what the customer wants, will relegate this endeavor to the fate of all previous attempts to put lip stick on a pig)
Mr. Donahue stands alone on MSNBC, but his program has struggled some against the far more watched Bill O'Reilly on Fox and Connie Chung on CNN. ( When will the networks give us what we want; more donahue is not even close; check the ratings if you dont believe me)
Conservatives have Mr. Limbaugh, Sean Hannity, Michael Reagan and Neal Boortz, who collectively draw an audience of at least 30 million people per week with a strictly conservative message. ( They have the audience because their message connects to real people, while liberals manifest as cadres of polemics telling listeners to do what they Say or be looked on as stupid; that is not connecting, it's dictating and intelligent people see through it every time)
In one of the more ambitious of the ideas circulating, a group of wealthy Democratic supporters is toying with the idea of starting a liberal cable network. ( lets hope they do; mal investing capital is a choice, emotional capitalists often make)
That endeavor would cost in the hundreds of millions and require the backing of a media company with enough leverage to force it onto the major cable systems. ( I can think of 3 who will bid)
Democratic officials said that they had discussed a similar idea with Haim Saban, a media mogul and party supporter, a couple of years ago, as Fox News began its ascent, but that he ultimately decided against it, in large part because of the odds against success. ( Smart Man, = contradiction in terms vis a vis ...party supporter)
"There is a hole in the market right now," Mr. Glaser said. "From my personal standpoint, holes in the market are opportunities." ( this is good positioning from someone who might possibly help find a home for those $ to be spent)
Democrats said a far more readily achievable goal would be to foster national liberal radio personalities.
The task has fallen to a newly formed group, Democracy Radio Inc. It is overseen by a former Democratic Congressional staffer, Tom Athens, with help from, among others, Paul W. Fiddick, the Clinton administration assistant secretary for agriculture and a co-founder of the Heritage Media Corporation.
"We're going to go out and identify talent and help them to create programming and actually connect them with local stations," Mr. Athens said. "We want to plant a thousand seeds and see how many flowers actually arise." ( we want to shout loud and long until we are the only voice, really...thats what we want)
But if history is any guide, the soil may not be fertile. Liberal radio programs have not worked very well in the past. Liberals and conservatives said they believed this was in part because the most prominent liberal hosts have tended to present policy issues in all of their dry complexity while refraining from baring fangs against conservative opponents. ( Because the Liberal foundation is Socialistic Communism; the left has a record, North Korea and Cuba are it's legacy, POL POT and Stalin it's past advocates; the world has had enough of the Left; it's bankruptcy in the field of ideas is what defines it's performance in the marketplace of ideas )DUH
"Most liberal talk shows are so, you know, milquetoast, who would want to listen to them?" said Harry Thomason, the Hollywood producer who is close to Bill Clinton. "Conservatives are all fire and brimstone."
Mr. Athens said his group would encourage its hosts to be more brazen and entertaining.
"Progressives have this problem: They sound too erudite, it's like eggheads talking at you," Mr. Athens said. "We believe that progressive talk radio can be every bit as successful as conservative talk radio if people present and format a show that people like."
( LOL they sound deluded, they have a history, they themselves look so stupid flailing about with ideas whose consequences are all displayed on the historical record)
Conclusion from Hannity sums it up for us independents "The public isn't interested in the kind of liberalism that the Democratic party has come to represent." |
