As was so smartly spelled out in Hopefuit2's diary yesterday, the media, in an effort to make this race look like it's remotely close, and to "prove" their "unbiased bona fides, will desperately try to make the DNC convention as much as a complete disaster as the RNC.
Personally, I don't think they will. But regardless, I am not one to sit back and bitch about something when I have the means with which to fight back. Ya'll know that.
Here's how we do it this week.
First of all, understand something: social media is AS POWERFUL a political force, if not more powerful, than the traditional media at this point. in 2008 we started to see the breakdown between what the traditional media was reporting and what was showing up in reality. They were often NOT the same.
Here, four years later, social media is an even more powerful force. We can use it to drive narrative, shame lazy reporters and expose the game.
So this week, if you're on facebook, twitter, pinterest, reddit or have a blog or website, we will be shaming the media when they write bullshit headlines and create bullshit stories that are completely divorced from reality.
And we'll call it:
#AlternateUniverseDNC
#UnbiasedFAIL
Free free to add or suggest you own but if you're on twitter, please attach this hashtag to any tweet that falsely reports or tries to put an obvious (and erroneous) negative spin on our convention.
Whether you're on twitter or facebook or other social network sites or not, there's this website http://www.quickmeme.com where you can upload any image, add your own text and BAM!
Here's a quick one I made in about 2 minutes just from the information in Hopefruit's diary.
The media is desperate. After all, they need the money too. Dragging this thing out and trying to make our convention it look like the clusterfuck that was the republican convention is their job.
Our convention will not be a clusterfuck. But I will not spend the week bitching about the media. I'm calling them on their bullshit. We've done it before, successfully and we can do it again.