Re: Media Project
Subject: Re: Media Project
From: drew@sterlingandross.com
Date: 2/22/10, 22:32
To: "Barrett Brown" <barriticus@gmail.com>

Yowza- what is this called?

Sent via BlackBerry by AT&T

From: Barrett Brown <barriticus@gmail.com>
Date: Mon, 22 Feb 2010 21:52:07 -0500
To: Sterling & Ross Publishers<drew@sterlingandross.com>
Subject: Re: Media Project

I think I may have mentioned it to you earlier but perhaps not; I announced it briefly at the end of Vanity Fair piece on Charles Johnson and myself and all that, as he's working with me on it along with the other bloggers I mentioned and a few other folks. The purpose is to get a great number of reasonable bloggers to coordinate from time to time in such a way as to create the critical mass necessary to prompt some number of mainstream outlets to address issues of our choosing; we're focusing specifically on failures of certain parties in the media, such as Friedman and the other prominent, shitty columnists, along with editors, publishers, owners, and everyone else who allows their outlets to put out mediocre content. Basically, the idea is to use the dynamics of the mainstream media against it in order to increase the influence of more erudite commentators and bring the things they all know - for instance, that Friedman and Krauthammer have a terrible track record of predictions - to a wider audience made up of people who are fairly reasonable and well-informed but who are at a disadvantage by virtue of taking in information from the traditional outlets. The bloggers are being organized into an invitation-only network that will facilitate communication among them, with this to be formed around a central committee made of myself and those whom I consider most capable and honest, such as Johnson and Kilkenny. The software component we're developing will serve as the means by which the network operates and provides for some other nifty features as well. 


On Mon, Feb 22, 2010 at 7:19 PM, Sterling & Ross Publishers <drew@sterlingandross.com> wrote:

Sorry, what project you mentioned?

 

Drew Nederpelt
Sterling & Ross Publishers
115 W. 29th St., Floor 3
New York, NY 10001
212 244 2084, ex.114
www.SterlingandRoss.com

From: Barrett Brown [mailto:barriticus@gmail.com]
Sent: Monday, February 22, 2010 6:05 PM
To: Sterling & Ross Publishers
Subject: Media Project

 

Howdy-

 

Hope all is well in the fashion district. I'm going in to the True/Slant offices on Wednesday afternoon to meet with the guys over there about that project I've mentioned; they seem interested in promoting it and perhaps utilizing our software and perhaps getting involved in some more significant capacity. I've also managed to get a nice array of other bloggers interested and have them recruiting others; will be putting out the formal announcement on Huffington Post, T/S, and a few other outlets on Friday, coordinated with announcements by Allison Kilkenny, Charles Johnson, the guys at Instaputz, and some other folks who have joined up as of yet, and should be able to get a great deal more commentators involved, with the project to launch in earnest by mid-April.

 

Also, in terms of promotional stuff for the book, I now write for Rolling Stone and the Center for Skeptical Inquiry.

 

Any interesting news on the book? More pre-orders or anything?

 

Thanks,

 

Barrett Brown

Brooklyn, NY

512-560-2302