“boycott” mainstream media on the 4th of july

by | Jun 22, 2006 | Uncategorized | 2 comments

Eric Skiff from The Alternative Music Show sent me an email alerting me to this:

I just wanted to give you a heads up that there’s a movement brewing to encourage people to "boycott" mainstream media on the 4th of july and tune into podcasts, vlogs, blogs, etc. instead. The idea got bounced around on the New England Podcasters list quite a bit and I posted about it on my blog today.

http://www.glitchnyc.com and http://alternativemusic.thepodcastnetwork.com

There’s been quite a few comments and reactions in the few short hours it’s been up so I think this idea may really catch hold. It’d be great to have lots of TPN podcasts participating!

I’ve created a promo for the event – I’d really appreciate if you featured it in your shows, and be sure to tag your july 4th shows july4us .

Sounds like fun. I tend to watch or listen to pretty much zero MSM anyway these days, but this will be a chance for more people to wean themselves off their mainstream media dummy. You can do it! Think for yourself! Participate in the media, don’t be a victim!

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  1. Bruce
    Bruce on June 29, 2006 at 3:36 am

    Sounds good to me. Where do I sign up? In particular, as the guy who invented blog ‘n’ roll, I’m calling upon musicians with opinions to begin putting them to music and integrating links to your songs into comments sections of blog sites. Break away from addictions to big label record companies and mainstream radio and go independent! To lead the way, here are a couple of original July 4th songs. I co-wrote the first with Corbin Cherry, Viet Nam veteran, war hero and former White House Chaplain.

    Red, White, Rhythm and Blues
    words and music by Dr. BLT & Corbin Cherry, (c)2006
    Produced by G. LaDuke
    http://www.drblt.com/music/redwhite.mp3

    and here’s one from my One September Mournin’ CD:

    Red, White and Blue
    words and music by Dr. BLT (c)2006
    http://www.drblt.com/music/redwhiteblue.mp3

    “There would be no Elvis. There would be no Johnny Cash. There’d be no B.B. King…We owe it all to the independents.” Sam Phillips

    Have a happy 4th, and let’s all celebrate independently!

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