We have to tell the media to piss off... until we stand up to the media, and stop 'swallowing' the BS, nothing will change. The "Dean Scream" is a perfect example... As many of you musicians know, some microphones only pick up the immediate area in their vicinity... and have a 'high threshhold'... which is to say, that they exclude background noise. The effect? In a room full of shouting and cheering supporters? A man 'needlessly' shouting... an 'extremist' out to overwhelm the American people with incendiary dogma and dangerous revolutionary passion... a demagogue...
In reality, however, Dean was loud in a very loud room... he was matching the volume of his supporters, and simply, totally appropriate... His supporters were loud and proud of it, and they are equally proud of of the man they support... Dean. ...who, by the way, is the product of a groundswell of support... and... the natural democratic response to the corporate media takeover that has 'American Freedom' (and world freedom for that matter) in a stranglehold. Can the American public tell the difference between propaganda and information? Gee, I sure hope so...
ttr