very true. if a group is receiving most of their funding from a well funded special interest group or very wealthy benefactors, like the Koch brothers, then that completely distorts the intended message. It becomes astroturf in the eyes of the public. No matter how meritorious the message, its invalidated.
Another reason for complete transparency and disclosure. On Wed, May 23, 2012 at 11:23 AM, Cameron Childress <camer...@gmail.com> wrote: > > On Wed, May 23, 2012 at 11:12 AM, Larry C. Lyons <larrycly...@gmail.com>wrote: > >> you tend to notice when they are in your face twice a day for a couple >> of weeks. At least with OWS they picked a different part of the >> district to occupy. > > > Yes, like you, I do tend to take note of things I directly observe. > However, the whole background and origin thing we were discussing is not > something you'd generally observe in person at a protest. At least, the > times they have been close enough to be in my face I've never seen a Tea > Party protester chanting "we got our funding from the Koch Brothers!". > > Usually I'd expect that to either come from active research, or from a > media source that has an agenda. Unfortunately, while it would be nice to > hear it from the more neutral spectrum of media, but I don't expect that to > happen. > > -Cameron > > ... > > > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Order the Adobe Coldfusion Anthology now! http://www.amazon.com/Adobe-Coldfusion-Anthology/dp/1430272155/?tag=houseoffusion Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/message.cfm/messageid:351189 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/unsubscribe.cfm
