Media That Matters Day 1
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Progressive Media Relays (from participants)
- GNN (Guerrilla News Network) (http://www.guerrillanews.com/)
Stephen Marshall
Started as small web site for online to offline syndication strategy. Offers weblogs to users. "Cross-platform guerrilla programming"! No ads, no fees.
Judy Rebick
To create a website for independent news and views and debate, w/emphasis on young people: who wanted interactivity. No editorial angle, though material is edited.
Babble: Discussion board moderated but not censored. The heart of the board is political. Nonprofit organization with a board.
- Utne Magazine (http://www.utne.com/)
- Cafe Utne (http://cafeutne.org/cafe/)
Leif Utne
Reader's digest for altenrative news/views/media.
Cafe Utne: created in 1995 as a free and open space on the web for civil discussion.
also: Free Press (http://www.freepress.net/) Josh Silver
Samoan Circle on Progressive Media Practice 2005
Stephen Marshall
Muckracking and investigative journalism.
John Stauber
Propaganda and the right: important to understand what we're up against w/the right: controling all branches of govt.
David Horowitz, from Ramparts ('60s): ideological extremist, switched to the right: now a leading a battle tactician of the right: to annhilate and destroy the opposition. Politics as war.
Josh Silver
Excited about the alternatives but : 40% of what we get from mainstream media is propaganda.
What's wrong with PBS? A structural issue: bottom line: Corp for Pblc Brdcasting a firewall bet. PBS and gvt: politics still rules.
Despite talk radio, more ppl listen to PBS for news than any other radio news.
3 fronts that need to work together: independent media, media critique, policy/structural reforms
Messaging: crucial that we need cede language and the ground: how we frame our vision
John de Graf
Problem w/time: most people don't have time to read or write all this stuff!
Open Space Marketplace
Open Space Technology: developed in the 80's by organizational consultant Harrison Owen....
- Open Space World (http://www.openspaceworld.org/wiki/wiki/wiki.cgi?)
- open space at co-intelligence.org (http://www.co-intelligence.org/P-Openspace.html)
4 principles:
- Whoever comes are the right people
- Whatever happens is the only thing that could have
- Whenever it starts is the right time
- When it's over, it's over
One law: The law of two feet (mobility): passion and responsibility
Also welcome to particpate as a butterfly (on the peripheries) or bumblebee (cross-polinating between session)
Stephen describes the Open Space Marketplace:
Participants propose sessions -- issues that need to be addressed or that you want to discuss, find a time-space on the grid, post it, and announce it.
Open Space I
Telling Whole Truths: Avoiding Over-Simplification in Storytelling (fiction and non-fiction)
Discussion of complexity and nuance, with reference to Stephen Johnson's Everything Bad Is Good for You (http://www.powells.com/cgi-bin/biblio?inkey=62-1573223077-0). Excerpt in the NYTimes, April 24, 2005, Watching TV Makes You Smarter (http://query.nytimes.com/gst/abstract.html?res=F60E1FFE345A0C778EDDAD0894DD404482), review in The New Yorker by Malcolm Gladwell Brain Candy (http://www.newyorker.com/critics/books/articles/050516crbo_books).
Media/storytelling as driven by the desire to change the viewer?
Ref. to George Lakoff: notion of frames: how do we get through these hardened, entrenched frames.
Two different techniques: "SuperSize Me" vs. Fahrenheit 9/11.
Value of humor to effect change.
Respect: the importance of coming from your core and keeping in tune with your values, imbuing all your actions with that.
Open Space II
New Games for Change: A Brainstorming Session
5:30 News
Josh: importance of thinking strategically -- looking at the field as a whole and deciding where/how to intervene most approproately given your skills/background
Velcro: Diversity and clarity -- different roles/strategies can compliment one another
Judy: From th epro-choice movement in Canada: in the 60's & 70's / old school left: idea that there was only one right stand/way, but instead today, a different bottom up model
others:
affinity groups : young kids teaching the old school lefties : works to organize around an issue but how to sustain it for a long term vision?
from Lakoff: expanding the notion of affinity groups
world social forum: a movement of movements
shifting from top-down to networking model: biggest problem is ppl not wanting to give up control
Evening Film
Milling, casual viewing: Jon Stewart on CrossFire, then GNN/Stephen Marshall's BattleGround: 21 Days on the Empire's Edge (http://gnn.tv/videos/20/BattleGround_21_Days_on_the_Empire_s_Edge)
Evening feature: John de Graf's Silent Killer: The Unfinished Campaign Against Hunger (http://www.silentkillerfilm.org/)
