Good idea by Allen Cohen! Put out the alternative call for public financing
--the only real solution to the political mess.
Ted Morgan
Allen Cohen wrote:
> I am afraid that the McClain Campaign Reform circus is nothing but a poison
> pill to destroy any possibility of true reform which, as you know, must be
> based on public financing + access to prime time radio and TV - Then the
> potential for more participation and choice would be posssible. Well, it
> would behoove us to think about a movement for public financing and maybe
> horrorwitz would be instructive here in so far as such a campaign could
> start with full page ads in college papers and speakers going out to
> colleges and media promoting and clarifying the concept.
> Short of depression and revolution that seems to me to be the handle for
> significant change.
>
> Allen Cohen
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Marty Jezer" <mjez@sover.net>
> To: <sixties-l@lists.village.virginia.edu>
> Sent: Saturday, March 31, 2001 3:15 PM
> Subject: Re: [sixties-l] (Fwd):Reparatiopns, DH & the Left
>
> William Mandel wrote:
> > So you conclude that the Horowitzes should always be entitled to more
> > ink than us, since they will always be able to buy more advertising
> > space. Is that correct?
> > William Mandel
>
> That's an easy question to ask, Bill, not so easy to answer.
>
> Yes, it's true, their side has more money than our side; more money for
> advertisements, more money for lobbying, more money for campaign
> contributions, more money for public relations, more money even to bus
> people to Washington for demonstrations. Is your idea that our side, the
> poor minority, censor their side, keep them from advertising?
>
> Advertising in what? The Nation, The Progressive and all our other little
> papers? We could do that, but big deal. They own the major media.
>
> We can solve the political (electoral) imbalance with the clean money
> reform (a system of full public financing), something I've been involved in
> from the beginning. (For details, see the new book, LOST IN WASHINGTON) by
> Barry M. Casper (UMASS Press). Advertising is a much knottier issue. What
> would you? Not rhetorically, but in the real world. How do you suggest we
> create a system whereby progressive/leftist/anti-capitalist arguments have
> the same access to the media as the other side has. Censoring their stuff,
> from our position of weakness, is no way to get our side heard. We just
> legitimize their censorship. The only way I can think is to, yes, let their
> voices be heard and then come back with our own rebuttals.
>
> Can you think of a better way? (And please don't answer "make a revolution!"
> I'm talking about what can be done in the current situation, today).
>
> Or to put it another way, do you think DH would have gotten the mileage he
> has gotten on this issue if the college newspapers had simply run his ads
> and used their editorial page to respond to the issue?
>
> Marty Jezer
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: <wmmmandel@earthlink.net>
> To: <sixties-l@lists.village.virginia.edu>
> Sent: Friday, March 30, 2001 5:41 PM
> Subject: Re: [sixties-l] (Fwd):Reparatiopns, DH & the Left
>
> >
> > Marty Jezer wrote:
> > >
> > --
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-- Ted Morgan Department of Political Science Lehigh University Maginnes Hall #9 Bethlehem, PA 18015 Phone: (610) 758-3345 Fax: (610) 758-6554
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