Posted on 11/16/2004 7:19:26 PM PST by CHARLITE
You all recognize my name from the dozens of postings I've made on Free Republic ~ articles that supported the reelection of George W. Bush (we won!) and also about the egregious bias of the leftwing media that did everything in its power to undermine a sitting president and try to manipulate the election of a known traitor to his country.
Now I've teamed up with a number of noted activists and unbiased journalists to fight the Mainstream Media (MSM). The plan is to address their advertisers and promise to (1) completely refrain from watching the biased TV and radio programs, and (2) pay special attention to NOT buying their products if they don't exert pressure on these programs to maintain their objectivity.
At this point, we're amassing a list of advertisers and YOUR HELP IS NEEDED!
If you know the names, titles, addresses, telephone numbers, faxes and e-mails of any advertisers on the MSM news programs, please forward them to me at FR Mail, or post them publicly under this article. Also let me know if you want to be placed on our mailing list to receive alerts. We are organizing a mass email/fax anti-MSM campaign. Join us!
Thank you!
Char
Should this be in chat or in blogs?
I haven't a clue. I only know how to post articles one way.
The existence of FreeRepublic IS fighting back. Be patient. You saw what happened in this election.
Your intentions are good, but your energy is misplaced. DO YOUR HOMEWORK FIRST. As Neal Boortz explained on his radio show today, many networks are stuck in long-term contracts with advertisers to whom they sold time years ago at much lower rates than they could get today. THEY WOULD LIKE NOTHING BETTER FOR THOSE OLD ADVERTISERS TO CANCEL THEIR CONTRACTS SO THE TIME COULD BE RESOLD (EASILY, BTW) TO NEW ADVERTISERS AT TODAY'S HIGHER RATES. So you would be doing NOTHING but HELPING the MSM.
It would be FAR BETTER for you to encourage their viewers to get their news elsewhere. THAT WAY, with few viewers, their rates would have to go back down; THAT'S what would hurt their bottom line and make them take notice.
http://freedomkeys.com/boortzcast.htm
Thanks. This is valuable information. Thanks too for telling me that my intentions are good. That helps when being scolded. I'm not crazy about being told to "do my homework!" I happen to know a great deal, but......alas, like everyone else, just not everything, everywhere, all the time. I'll settle for the intentions bit, but it can't possibly BE that all are "stuck" in longterm contracts. Can't be 100% of them. Didn't the sponsors respond to the pressure from ordinary Americans with the Janet Jackson Super Bowl gaffe?..........and to the Sinclair broadcast situation with "Stolen Honor?" If viewers have no affect upon sponsors EVER, then are we all just sitting ducks?....and lame ones at that? Impotent? Unimportant? We are their market!
I would love to have a website just about the MSM- give bios on the different reporters - find out what sorority or fraternity they belonged to- where they got their education - etc- ties by marriage or family to businesses- see if they pass the ole snifferoo test ...
Anyway, I still think somehow diverting the MSM's viewers is the way to go.
"All of us necessarily hold many casual opinions that are ludicrously wrong simply because life is far too short for us to think through even a small fraction of the topics that we come across." -- Julian Simon
"I would love to have a website just about the MSM-"
http://www.mediaresearch.org/about/aboutwelcome.asp
"The mission of the Media Research Center is to bring balance and responsibility to the news media. Leaders of America's conservative movement have long believed that within the national news media a strident liberal bias existed that influenced the public's understanding of critical issues. On October 1, 1987, a group of young determined conservatives set out to not only prove - through sound scientific research - that liberal bias in the media does exist and undermines traditional American values, but also to neutralize its impact on the American political scene. What they launched that fall is the now acclaimed --- Media Research Center (MRC)."
Media Research Center: Home page:
http://www.mediaresearch.org/welcome.asp
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