The Loud Voice of the Internet

Are you listening? The New Media continues to scream around the world. Those in Christendom that learn how to ride this wave and use it to spread the grace and goodness of the Lord will tap into a coming tsunami.

Just as a way of example, here is a story of some bloggers that have created a grassroots groundswell of support for the television show Jericho. I've never seen the show, but it's supposedly a conservative family-oriented series about a small town in Kansas enduring the aftermath of a nuclear attack. In response to CBS canceling the show, supporters have sent more than 20,000 pounds of real peanuts to the station.

Here is an excerpt from the grassroots website:

Welcome to the NutsOnline home page, where fans from all over the world are pooling their resources to send thousands of pounds of peanuts to CBS to protest the cancellation of Jericho. In addition to sending individual orders to CBS programming executives, as a Jericho fan you can now contribute money to massive shipments of nuts. NutsOnline will do our part by pooling monies and supplying nuts at a steep discount! At the end of each day we will tally dollars collected and ship out huge quantities of roasted peanuts in the shell!

Why nuts? In the final episode Jake Green (Skeet Ulrich) borrowed the historic phrase "NUTS" in response to a final offer of surrender from a hostile neighboring town. CBS decided to cancel the show, and fans are uprising to save Jericho by sending, you got it, NUTS to CBS executives.

After just a few days, a local news station aired news about this movement:



Pretty nuts huh?