Comments on: Free Press: Shame on you!

By: Jon Vander

Jon Vander — Thu, 23 Sep 2010 14:34:39 +0000

Wow, way to put words into the free press’ mouth. The issue of net neutrality is very poorly covered in the MSM (this is why you get no traffic). The Free Press was stating that certain types of people would side with Net Neutrality advocates if they were actually exposed to the issue. Just like certain types of people would oppose Net Neutrality if they were paid lots of money by ISPs to be, I don’t know, their attorney let’s say.

By: Calculated Tactics Will Not Stand

Calculated Tactics Will Not Stand — Wed, 18 Aug 2010 20:34:01 +0000

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By: Michael Walker

Michael Walker — Sun, 15 Aug 2010 05:05:26 +0000

Is shooting the messenger, the Free Press, always a bad thing? Recently I read a piece by Danny Bakewell, Jr., expressing his outrage that the Free Press admitted to using manipulative, subliminal techniques to influence public opinion on the lower rungs of the American voting ladder, to wit, poor minorities. The subject was Net Neutrality (something everyone loves, right?) where the thrust was to prevent large private companies like Comcast and A T and T from kinking up the free Internet that we all know and love. The Free Press abhors these giant Internet Providers limiting usage of the Internet. So far, so good. The large Internet Providers seek to charge customers more based upon higher tiers of services at higher prices. Bummer. That eliminates the lower-income minorities and women, Bakewell says. Bakewell does not object to the Internet should remaining free for all users anymore than President Obama does, who happens to be a strong supporter of Net Neutrality, or a free Internet. What Bakewell, president of the NNPA (National Newspapers Publishers Association), says is that the Free Press seeks openly to manipulate poor minorities and black women through deliberate psychological manipulation designed to scare them into believing that their Internet privileges are in peril from the big Internet Providers. The message that the Internet should remain forever free and accessible to all is a good message. But it is the deliberately manipulative means of achieving the end that Bakewell challenges as racist. He contends that because many of the minority voters targeted by the Free Press as too dumb to get it without cartoons and story-telling, the Free Press presentation of net neutrality is not only insulting, but racist as well.

So is the Free Press racist for their déjà vue cartoon with a big, modern public drinking fountain labeled ‘Premium Users’ and a small drinking fountain labeled ‘Everyone Else?’ Is there a subconscious hook to the ‘White’ and ‘Colored’ drinking fountains of yesteryear? It feels like it to me. And the Free Press openly-revealed plan to manipulate through story-telling techniques instead of sticking to the issues seems a bit Goebbels-inspired to me.

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By: Jorge Bauermeister

Jorge Bauermeister — Wed, 28 Jul 2010 14:47:27 +0000

Justin:

Thanks for visiting the site and sharing your thoughts!

By: Justin Velez-Hagan

Justin Velez-Hagan — Wed, 28 Jul 2010 02:12:54 +0000

Interesting information on the issue. I am in full agreement with you on the issue of Net Neutrality and am equally appalled by organizations, such as “Free Press” (quite the ironic name if you ask me) who try to categorize the population based on their potential for manipulation. In this case, trying to convince the American people that our already overwhelmed government has the ability to also regulate the vast and virtually unlimited world of the internet in order to ensure “free and open access for all” is going to be an uphill battle. I look forward to more insights on the issue.