Subverting the media for good

[ILoveYeshua]

The best way to fight fire is with fire. To counter the ruinous subversion of Western media, I suggest infiltrating the biggest media firms around (i.e. Disney, Viacom, et al.) and using them to benefit the one, true faith.
I’m open to strategies

 

[0Scarlett_nidiyilii]

The story has to come first.
You need to tell interesting stories that people want to hear.
Not try to sculpt a story around a moral.

 

[Peeps]

I have a daughter who works in the entertainment industry.

I agree with you and with OScarlett nidivilii–we need to become involved with the media, both the news media and the entertainment media (sometimes it’s hard to tell the difference!).

The way to do that is to encourage our children who show interest and talent in the performing arts or in journalism to pursue these careers. While they are growing up, make sure that they have many opportunities to get involved with theater, dance, arts, music, writing, debate, etc.

That may mean sending them to lower/middle/upper schools (grades 1-12) that have these opportunities and most importantly, gets the students OUT into the community.

It is vital that even older children and young teens begin to learn to network. This is how people get work in the entertainment and journalism fields. You don’t just “apply”–you meet someone who introduces you to someone else, and that person invites you to their opening night, and you come and meet other people and eventually, someone asks you if you would like to be an intern in their theater or office–and you just keep doing all this over and over as you work your way through the pipeline and eventually reach a place where YOU are the one who is determining the course of the entertainment or journalism piece.

But here’s the problem–parents are terrified to allow their children and teenager to get involved with these types of careers! Theater is especially scary–parents imagine their children tending bar or working as a waiter all their life! And writing home for money constantly! And eventually moving back home and going back to school for a sensible major that will net them a well-paying job with health care and retirement plans!

We have to get over those fears. If God has give us certain talents and abilities and personalities, there’s a good chance that God wants us in the media, and He will help us to earn enough money to eat.

That’s how we “infiltrate” the media–by working our buns off while we are growing up and earning the right to get a job in those fields.

 

[Peeps]

And there’s another way to “infiltrate” the media–write for your local newspapers and magazines, and/or speak at whatever local organizations will give you a platform.

I’m not a speaker, but I do write columns for my local newspaper–not regularly. I’m very careful about submitting a guest column–I make sure that it is for an issue that means a lot to me. And I don’t always write about political or controversial issues–much of the time, I write pieces that I know many people will feel good about (and others will growl over!). A few years ago, after one of my columns was published, I walked into an event, and everyone stood up and applauded (it was a particularly good column about a local issue that many of us have strong opinions about!).

It makes me feel good to know that I am making people in my part of the world think a little harder.

Try it! If you can write for CAF, you can write for your local media! Start with something pleasant–it’s not a good idea to debut writing about the demise of our entire nation!

 

[ILoveYeshua]

Good suggestions. A force for good often starts off small and local