Letters to the Editor
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internet attack ads
This ad is merely a preview of what will be de rigeur during the upcoming 2008 campaign. Anonymous garbage will be all over youtube and picked up as "news" by media outlets. Couple this with the early primary dates, and it could spell the ugliest campaign ever. We will know the presumptive candidates for both parties long before the conventions and the election. There will nothing but filth and extremism all over the media for months and months. Normal citizens will be turned off and either choose not to pay atttention or, worse, not to participate at all. The extremists, the bloggers, the shouters are all winning. There is little civil intercourse on the internet and we are becoming a pathetically polarized society. Shame on the activists who are behind these antics. I am sick to my core of such ads, such blogging, such nonsense. I should point out that I am not an advocate of any particular candidate.
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*yawn*
how are we to pick what bottom feeding, glad handing, corporate and pac money sucking prevaricator am i to vote for if the corporate media do not impose some decorum and gatekeeping into the process of informing us about the true issues facing our nation.
i fear that rome is burning.
where did i put those marshmellows.
ever wonder why they hype an ad like that one but never mention any of the 911 online videos that call into question the official story?
99 44/100 % of the news is censored. that 54/100 % is pure gold, truth and the amreican way.
"OBAMA!!! It's new and improved and MUCH FRESHER than old and busted HILLARY!"
yeah, america will buy that. america buys whatever it's sold.
now they don't have to PAY the networks.
and if you believe that one, there's a bridge i'd like to sell you.
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Still Not Getting It!
"No one knows when or where, but more online political videos are sure to catch fire. The bigger question is: Will those who secretly pay to produce the videos be able to hide behind YouTube, or will they be forced to come forward?"
No.
The bigger question is: will the old media be able to handle the new media, which is, by its fundamental nature, democratic, anarchistic, and, to adapt Stewart Brand's saying, "wanting to be free"?
Judging from this article, the answer to _that_ bigger question is "No."
And, as for this:
"There is little civil intercourse on the internet and we are becoming a pathetically polarized society. Shame on the activists who are behind these antics. I am sick to my core of such ads, such blogging, such nonsense."
This writer must not have been paying attention to society since, oh, say, 1988. Lee Atwater showed us the way to this brave new world; shouters like Limbaugh and Coulter have made us live in it without relief. Don't blame blogs and YouTube for what has been happening for almost two decades now.
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Good Job!
Thank you, Brother Sherer, for identifying the miscreant who authored the hit-piece video. He will be remembered in good time.
And thank you for your article articulating the fallacies of our current law that allowed this travesty against President Hillary.
However, I think we need to go a step further and identify everyone who watched the video and actually *enjoyed* it.
It is important that we realize there are two types of people in this world: 1.) Sane people, and 2.) Hillary Haters.
We cannot achieve utopia until the latter has been dealt with effectively.
Onward!
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What damage did it do?
The clip on YouTube was silly.
It was a very vague "we don't like her" type of piece.
What were they trying to convince me of?
What kind of weak minded people would be influenced by this?
If this is the future of political campaigning, we are in big trouble.
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Fine
Dr. Zachary: Exactly. Democrats - especially liberals - have been struggling to catch up to the wingnuts' domination of the airwaves for exactly 20 years - since the 1987 elimination of the Fairness Doctrine.
Everyone predicted a disastrous coarsening of political discourse and they were dead-on right - although no one realized how much the repug lunatics would dominate it.
Now we've got predictions of anonymous Internet videos creating a disastrous coarsening of political discourse, and no doubt they are correct.
This time, however, it's likely to be liberals and progressives who dominate it.
Come back to me in 20 years, Michael, when the repugs have gotten a taste of their own medicine. THEN we'll talk about regulating YouTube or whatever succeeds it next year AND restoring the Fairness Doctrime
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Great anti Hillary video
Any ad that helps to keep Mrs. Clinton out of the White House I'm all for. The fact that Democrat created the ad tells me something about the fact that many many Democrats dislike her and want to get her out of the race. That won't happen because of the Clinton money machine but we can work and pray that she will be defeated. She is ruthless and doesn't belong in the White House
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Good Stuff
This is Free Speech at its best. The only qualm I have is with the e-mailing section-- these limits are easily circumvented, and direct correspondance does not equal a public voicing of opinion.
Beyond that, I would say that the Republicans are more likely to pay someone under the table or as a 'consultant' to produce videos, than are the Democrats. For one, artsy-fartsy types are (generally) liberal/democratic leaning individuals, and our country's immediate political history probably provides all the motivation these people need-- one thing about creative people: they like to create . That is not to say that there won't be hundreds of other video-mercenaries out there selling their talents-- but even then you'll probably get alot of 'free introduction' vids on both sides. Should make The Eternal Elections at least a little bit more interesting.
In the end, anything that levels the finacial playing field in the arena of politics, well I'm all for it!
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Sounds like it could be fun.
I'm all for it!
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re: The potential for mischief is great.
In that case, let the mischief begin. Allow me to cast the first stone. www.BlueBlogsTV.com
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Attack ads on the sly
Has a renegade anti-Hillary video on YouTube changed political campaigning as we know it?
No. Most people still don't get their news and information from the Internet, and especially not YouTube. The only people paying attention to this "big story" is the vast echo chamber that is most of the world of blogging and on line "news."