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Not Courting the CMNM Anymore

In past campaigns, the Party of Commons used to plead with editors and reporters of the Corporate Mainstream News Media (CMNM) to give us a little coverage since news coverage is practically synomynous with votes. The traditional thinking is that candidates who don't get coverage, don't get elected. So, generally speaking, we sent our press releases, opinion pieces and e-mails to the CMNM and were laughed at and mocked, and if the CMNM did decide to cover us, it was usually to further disparage our political efforts. While we were bringing the people of America another choice besides Democrats & Republicans, like several other third parties in America, the Corporate Mainstream News Media decided to effectively collaborate with the major parties to defeat any real change in America.

They and their cohorts have succeeded beyond their wildest dreams and as a result our economy is in shambles, the environment is getting so bad that people are actually talking about looking for another planet for humans to inhabit, and the Military Industrial Complex and the hired clowns and bozos in the Congress are dreaming up new empires so that our nation can continue to be tied down in parts of the world where we don't belong, something akin to Gulliver of "Gulliver's Travels." Observing this journalistic travesty, Commoner America is increasingly no longer being fooled by the CMNM and the sham political beneficiaries of their "reporting," which is why we have enjoyed a new freedom of not worrying about whether they ignore us anymore. We are communicating about our campaign directly to the people, and it will be the people, through their word-of-mouth and electronic communications that will win the day for the Party of Commons and, in essence, the masses who are our only hope for a true democracy.

Originally published on "Commoner" on May 17, 2010; revised on 5/19/10.

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