We must STOP visiting Drudge Report.
Drudge Report is the clearing house for media - old and new - where shows get their talking points and truth is decided on.
Drudge is also a fervid right-winger determined to poison the well in 2008. This has become increasingly evident since Governor Palin, who shares Drudge's anti-intellectual values, took the scene. Almost all pieces he features are provocative, pro-Palin, anti-Obama.
Join the Drudge Revolt to stop Drudge's influence: Avoid Drudge Report, rely on other new media exclusively, get others to do so.
Vote in this poll. Bump this post. E-mail this to friends.
Below are Drudge alternatives.
Rather than patronize Drudge and thereby force the media to go to him for popular, breaking stories, we can depend on our own media:
http://www.huffingtonpost.com
http://news.yahoo.com/
http://www.fark.com/
If DailyKos users avoid Drudge and influence others to do the same, the change in the tone of the overall media will be noticeable. Old media will take notice and begin to go to the sites we visit. The tone will change, and Drudge will be relegated to the political fringe where he belongs.
This will take grassroots activism, but grassroots is what Kos is about.
Vote in this poll. Bump this post. E-mail this to friends.
Spread the word.
Either we take back the truth, or Drudge will make it his own.
--M.C.Funk
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A Media Contact List from The Liberty of Meat, who comments:
Is push back when the media presents right wing talking points as news. Write them, call them. e-mail them. Be brief, be clear about facts and be polite but firm. Individual efforts will not make a big impact, but they will take notice if a lot of individuals make the effort.
Here is the contact list I use.
Media Contact List from FAIR