Thurs. & Fri. National FReep CBS Days! A Call To ARMS!

FRee Republic ^ | 9/14/04 | Clyde260

[Grampa Dave]

Please use your great ping lists for this important action.

[clyde260]

Thank you Grandpa.

[Republican Red]

I have contacted CBS, Sponsors and my local Atlanta affiliate WGCL. I wrote the FCC yesterday and included both CBS and WGCL Atlanta in my complaint. Relicensing issues are very important to affiliates.

Today I am concentrating on the Board of Directors. A thread with names and phone numbers is here:

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1216569/posts?page=6#6

According to the Viacom Board of Director guidelines the Board has a fiduciary responsibility to the stockholders not Dan Rather.

http://www.viacom.com/pdf/CorpGovGuidelines.pdf

"The responsibility of the directors is to act in good faith and with due care so as to exercise their business judgment on an informed basis in what they reasonably and honestly believe to be in the best interests of Viacom and its stockholders."

[clyde260]

Well done! Very professional for amateur - pajamma wearing - bloggers!

[MeekOneGOP]

Mornin'! :^D

Pinged on post #50 .....

[ELS]

If you go to the Freeper Profiles page and click on New Jersey, you will get to the NJ locale page. As another FReeper mentioned, firebrand is the chapter leader of the Tri-State (CT/NJ/NY) FR chapter.

[Uncle Jaque]

FYI:

On a related thread I posted an "Open Letter to the FCC":

Sept. 14, 2004

TO: fccinfo@fcc.gov

To Whom it may concern - FCC:

To whom should I address my indignation of the blatantly politically biased misrepresentation of "News" by CBS Television, and in particular the indefensibly slanderous allegations about President George W. BUSH expressed as "News" by Anchorman Dan RATHER?

Mr. RATHER's obvious political bias in his delivery style and choice of content for his "news" programming have been offensive to me for years (I only watch him under duress; my Wife insists of watching his 6PM Newscast on Channel 13 here in Maine).

But his latest diatribe, using what are becoming increasingly obvious to be forged documents to support his contentions, have far exceeded his typicaly poor taste and journalistic incompetence.

I submit to you that I seriously consider Mr. RATHER's latest attempt to unseat a sitting President of the United States of America by the use of fabricated allegations of dereliction of duty during Mr. BUSH's Military service in the Texas Air National Guard using FORGED documents to advance his spurious allegations, during a time of national emergency and WAR, to be sufficient to establish a reasonable suspicion of willful sedition and TREASON against not only our President, but the concept of Constitutional Democracy itself.

Mr. RATHER and CBS have wantonly and repeatedly violated the trust of the American People by advancing their political agendas by use of regular propaganda techniques under the guise of legitimate "news" over the public broadcast media, in clear violation, I submit, of the FCC regulations and standards of conduct by a broadcaster entrusted by their Federal license to operate in the "Public Interest".

Please consider this as a formal request by an American Citizen (and regular Voter) to investigate the intentions and conduct of the CBS Television Network as well as Mr. RATHER, and take whatever regulatory and/or legal action is deemed judicially appropriate.

Thank You;

(Uncle Jaque)

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To which they replied:

(See: http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1215492/posts?page=231#231 )

[firebrand]

Good luck, Clyde! Thanks for doing this. I will ping some people a bit later.

[DAVEY CROCKETT]

Got it covered:) Can't wait!

[clyde260]

Everything on hold till the CBS announcement, but I suspect we will be going full tilt boogie.

[Minus_The_Bear]

BTTT

[clyde260]

Have to go have dinner, will be back around 8:PM EDT.

[NewJerseyJoe]

1. BOYCOTT all sponsors of the CBS evening news, and let them know it

Rather than jump immediately into a boycott, may I suggest an alternative? What I did was write a letter to one of the sponsors, expressing my displeasure. I sent this to L.L. Bean:

Hello. I support LL Bean, like its products, have been a customer in the past, and probably will be a customer in the future. But I (and thousands of others) would be REALLY happy if your company pulled its advertising from the "news"-inventing, fraud-mongering CBS network.

I have a feeling that L.L. himself would have felt the same way.

Within a few hours, I received this reply:

Thank you for your email to L.L.Bean about the advertising we do with CBS.

To ensure your concern is addressed, I have forwarded your email to the correct department for their attention.

Please feel free to contact us again, by email or telephone, if you have any further questions or comments.

Sincerely,
Christina T.
L.L.Bean Customer Service

Perhaps that's only a canned corporate response... perhaps not. But it was pleasant enough and I received the reply quickly.

If it's a company or product I like, I like to give the benefit of a doubt first. It's easier to catch flies with honey than with vinegar.

[Eva]

I never watch CBS anyway. I don't even know what channel it's on.

[NYC GOP Chick]

Thanks, but I'm going to have to pass -- it's on Rosh Hashanah, one of the holiest Jewish holidays...

[Minus_The_Bear]

BTTT