CULTURE WARS, PUBLIC COMMENTARY, AND THE MEDIA

 By Bill Muehlenberg - Posted at Culture Watch:

We need to keep speaking truth in the public arena, despite how hard it is:

Trying to have a public voice to share our side of the story is getting progressively more difficult in the West, certainly when it comes to the mainstream media. And that is why the alternative media has taken off so spectacularly in the past few decades. Christians and conservatives especially are being squeezed out of the public square and barred by most media outlets, so using our own media is one way to go – and sometimes the only way.

Here I want to discuss my own experiences in dealing with the media – in this case overwhelmingly with the mainstream media. So this piece will be rather autobiographical in nature, as I talk about being a conservative and a Christian (read: ‘controversial’) commentator in a mainly hostile media, and how things have changed over the past several decades. As such, you might call this: “Bill’s Adventures in Medialand” – or something like that.

I arrived in Australia – on a permanent basis – in August of 1989. Over the next few years I worked at several conservative organisations. In January 1992 I began work with the Australian Family Association – as the National Secretary no less.

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