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Higher Gas Prices, No Public Protest, Who Wins?
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Added: 05/11/2004
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Higher Gas Prices, No Public Protest, Who Wins?
When’s the public protest going to begin? It’s up to the Media to present the much-needed “reality” behind the high gas prices. News outlets seem content to snuggle into their own little niche and then spoon-feed viewers and readers news nuggets, sound bytes and happy talk.
Where’s the media’s anger about the horrors happening in the world today? Where’s the emotional vent and the information to prod the public into breaking loose from its apathy? The media has to stop telling people what they think they want to hear – and get down to the truth -- the dirty, gritty, roll-in-the-mud facts.
It’s time for the mass media to break their silence. It’s the only way to shatter the apathy that threatens to bring America to its knees -- by default.
To work for change, the media must help the public make politicians and corporations become responsible, accountable and answerable to the average American taxpayer.
Surely there’s a need to help end the public silence on America’s pipeline politics that’s the root cause of our dependence on foreign oil that feeds terrorism.
How have the purveyors of news handled the issue? They’ve ignored it. They report on terrorism, but forget the vital link to terror mongers. They report on high gasoline prices, but don’t address the necessary conclusion that we’re suffering the consequences of an ill-advised blood-for-oil conflict.
They report on the Iraq War, but dance around connecting the dots between terrorism, foreign oil and pipeline politics that’s been threatening America for decades.
The media don’t tell you why nothing was done following the oil boycotts of the 1970s and 1980s that's offered a grim prediction of what would happen today -- $2 a gallon fuel prices that show no sign of coming down. Special interests that thrive on the sweat and toil of Middle America don't want things to change.
Tell us, Peter Jennings, how can the Average Joe kick-start the switch from overpriced gasoline to ethanol, solar, wind and other alternative powers?
Please, Bill O’Reilly, if you’re going to rant and rave, do so about something that will help America. Rail about the oil barons who suck American greenbacks and feed them to their bastard terrorist stepchildren.
Geraldo Rivera, get your nose out of shipwrecks and talk about the need for a new generation of pump patriots – citizens willing to stand up and cry out for change in politicians personal political agendas.
The media – and the public – must understand that the inability of citizens to raise their voices in protest is the real issue.
Without this emotional edge, we’re all lemmings en route to the nearest body of water.
One voice can get the ball rolling. A million can ignite a revolution, one that will save the nation from more years of terror fears and gasoline price and supply shock.
FOIL – the Foreign Oil Independence League – has been that one voice. With billboards, posters, bumper stickers, decals, newspaper ads and Internet stories, it has brought to the public’s attention many times the need for “Made-in-the-USA” energy resources.
So why the lack of any rush to reach the American public with the alternative energy messages? The media need to tell the public why Washington politicians, automobile manufacturers, oil companies and energy-based nonprofit organizations are reluctant to market ethanol with the same competitive ferocity they display to market cars, Hummers and SUVs?
FOIL is looking to partner with civic-minded media to push for increased use of the alternative energies as a solution to America's dependence on fossil fuels -- and the political and environmental instability it brings.
True public-spirited media can show their commitment to social causes generally by actively supporting the pivotal American issue of energy independence.
America needs gutsy people and provocative media to get the word out and the job done.
FOIL will provide the grist. “Mad as Hell” Americans must offer the muscle. Proceeds form the sale of FOil items go towards building a media fund. |
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