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RE: Hi Steemit, My Name Is Elizabeth Vos, Journalist and Editor In Chief at Disobedient Media!
I agree with you, and that is definitely the dark side of the death of legacy press. There are absolutely attempts to poison the independent media well, and some of those are frustratingly successful. The only way I can think of dealing with it, from my perspective, is to try to keep reporting as accurately as possible to provide an honest counter narrative to disinformation whether it's from MSM or anywhere else. Also, there is a clear pattern with these types: They usually accuse legit indie media of being affiliated with Russians, and hate Wikileaks/Assange/Ed Snowden. Anyone who speaks in those anti-whistleblower terms should be treated with maximum caution and skepticism.
Yes I agree with that, the truth will win eventually, by its very nature it is stronger than a lie :-)
Do you ever need writers for your publication? I am definitely on the same side as all of this, and have been writing for over 20 years. Let me know.
I find it weird sometimes that all these platforms that now exist simply did not when I started out, that in itself is a massive leap forward, the democratisation of media to the people. It's definitely the start of global change.
Interesting. I thought your first question/questions were more a question about how to organize large number people for true democratic change when there is such a decentralized source of information now. In Stockholm alone there are a number of protests everyday, everyone of those drawing a few hundred people. It´s like the opportunity for people to find it´s own information the more un-organized we get? Do you see my point?
I guess that is true, but then perhaps true global change will come from a mass of tiny organisations rather than one big movement? in some ways its stronger because it can't be gotten rid of so easily :-)
Good point. Maybe a range of tiny organisations with one common goal. If that's possible... :)
I think different organisations who have different goals can learn to work together, for example, they may be different in many areas but they have may have some common general aims, they could work together within those to change the issue itself, all too often people get caught up in party politics so won't unite behind a certain issue as they don't want to be seen to stand shoulder to shoulder with people they disagree with on other issues, I guess maybe its ego a lot of the time too, a lot of politicians care more about how they appear, than what they actually do. :-/