The Military, amongst others, have often complained of media bias. In fact, the MSM slant is a large part of why the War On Terror News main site was created. In follow-up to that, a close associate of mine, said to me: "If you think the media is so unfair, why don't you start your own?" The "you" of that included others that didn't participate, but the speaker of it has been less than happy with the amount of time it takes for such endeavors.
FingerTip found a different way to do similar things. An 11 year Air Force Veteran, FingerTipNews has been so successful that a spinoff @AllMilitaryNews was created. In the latter endeavor, many milbloggers and Supporters of Our Troops have benefitted by an aggregate of the many sites tweets being put in one spot, in one timeline
But FingerTip was also the leading source covering the Iran Election aftermath.
With all of that going for such an awesome tweeter, one would expect widespread support for someone going up against an MSM Giant that epitomizes the complaint such as CNN. But such is not the case and this is an area that the #SOT community can tip the balance. Voting in the Motorola Mashable Open Web Awards is running at a breakneck speed of about 60 votes a day. Recent sampling shows that about 1/3 of those are voting for FingerTip and another 1/3 for CNN.
As such, it's possible that one big push could put FingerTip over the top, but the daily dedication of those that Support Our Troops would certainly bring greater awareness to the effort. Seems like a no-brainer to me. If you're a part of SOT, particularly if you have benefitted from FingerTip or AllMilitary News, you should be voting every chance you can. That means daily, Chicago Style!
And while you're there, don't forget to vote for @ThankASoldier in Best Non-Profit Use of Social Media.
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