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A Lesson From Palin: Be Mindful of the Media

Brian Goettl Wrote: Jul 13, 2009 9:58 PM
The real lesson about how the pop media treated Sarah Palin is that conservatives need to fully develop their own media to rival the power of the pop media. Rush was the harbinger and Fox is a good second phase. Townhall offers one print alternative. But we have to do more.

Also, if we can get conservatives to stop paying rapt attention to what the pop journalists are saying and putting out a strong counter message we can wage a fair fight for the minds of the populace.

In many conversations with middle-of-the-road and liberal friends, I’ve talked until I’m blue in the face about identifying myself and the organization I work for as conservative rather than Republican. This doesn’t stop them from saying “But you guys had eight years to fix things” any time I bring up the conservative viewpoint or solution to an issue. We have to accept that to a lot of people outside of the movement, conservative and Republican will always be synonymous. In fact, when I was 18 years-old I didn’t know the difference, so I’ll always have a tattoo of the Republican elephant...

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