[Bottom-up trumps top-down, New Media trump Old Media, the people trump the oligarchs, the Internet trumps the mainstream media.]
Sent to you by Sean McBride via Google Reader: Rolling Stone | The Machinery of Hope via t r u t h o u t on 3/11/08 Tim Dickinson, reporting for Rolling Stone, writes: "The Obama campaign has shattered the top-down, command-and-control, broadcast-TV model that has dominated American politics since the early 1960s. 'They have taken the bottom-up campaign and absolutely perfected it,' says Joe Trippi, who masterminded Dean's Internet campaign in 2004. 'It's light-years ahead of where we were four years ago. They'll have 100,000 people in a state who have signed up on their Web site and put in their zip code. Now, paid organizers can get in touch with people at the precinct level and help them build the organization bottom up. That's never happened before. It never was possible before.'" Things you can do from here: - Subscribe to t r u t h o u t using Google Reader - Get started using Google Reader to easily keep up with all your favorite sites
