Pacific Free Press was launched in March 2007 by Dutch-Canadian Richard
Kastelein of V.O.F. Expathos, in the Netherlands along with Chris Cook- CFUV radio journalist and Editor in Chief of Pacific Free Press. Cook is based in , Victoria, British Columbia.
The mission of Pacific Free Press is simple: to dig out nuggets of truth from
the slag-heap of lies, ignorance and witless diversion that has buried
public discourse today. Pacific Free Press provides a new venue for
disseminating hard news and insightful, fact-based analysis of the
harsh realities too often ignored or distorted by the mainstream press.
Switching Channels: How Leaving TeeVee is Revolutionizing Politics
The medium of US politics for almost five decades has been television. The
30-second ad has lent itself to a simple and emotionally charged political
discourse. As Joe Trippi points out in his book, "The Revolution Will Not Be
Televised", we are in the beginning of a shift to a new medium--the Internet.
This shift will have a profound impact on politics.
As Internet enthusiast Al
Gore posited, "Any new dominant communications medium leads to a new information
ecology in society that inevitably changes the way ideas, feelings, wealth,
power, and influence are distributed--and the way collective decisions are
made." Joe Trippi suggests that we have already seen how the Internet can
establish a broad network of low dollar funders, taking the power away from "fat
cats." Trippi also believes that this shift from TV to Internet poses a danger
to politicians, since the US remains, for the time being, a TV society that will
distort comments and actions meant for an Internet audience.
Bio
Joe Trippi, after three decades of campaign experience, served as Campaign
Manager for Howard Dean's 2004 presidential bid. Following the collapse of Dean
as an internet sensation, Trippi wrote an analysis of internet politics
entitled, "The Revolution will not be Televised". Trippi currently heads the
consulting firm Trippi & Associates.
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