"Or like, staging a sit-in, man! 'Course nowadays, sit-ins are easy, y'know. It's gettin' up afterwards that's hard!"
Posted on 7/28/2007, 10:32:48 AM by Elkiejg
NEW YORK(AP) Liberal activists are stepping up their campaign against Fox News Channel by pressuring advertisers not to patronize the network.
MoveOn.org, the Campaign for America's Future and liberal blogs like DailyKos.com are asking thousands of supporters to monitor who is advertising on the network. Once a database is gathered, an organized phone-calling campaign will begin, said Jim Gilliam, vice president of media strategy for Brave New Films, a company that has made anti-Fox videos.
The groups have successfully pressured Democratic presidential candidates not to appear at any debate sponsored by Fox, and are also trying to get Home Depot Inc. to stop advertising there.
At least 5,000 people nationwide have signed up to compile logs on who is running commercials on Fox, Gilliam said. The groups want to first concentrate on businesses running local ads, as opposed to national commercials.
"It's a lot more effective for Sam's Diner to get calls from 10 people in his town than going to the consumer complaint department of some pharmaceutical company," Gilliam said.
Some of the videos produced by Gilliam's company compile statements made by Fox anchors and guests that the activists consider misleading, such as those that question global warming.
Representatives for Fox News Channel, which is owned by News Corp., did not immediately return calls for comment.
Home Depot has not had an unusual number of calls, said spokesman Jerry Shields, and the home improvement chain will not change its advertising strategy.
"We're not in the business of censoring media," Shields said. "We need to reach our customer base through all mediums available."
I go out of my way to avoid shopping in their stores.
They hire the surliest people who avoid customers and prefer to bitch about their jobs to each other.
Fox news has just as much crap as the other cable news channels. I wouldn't go out of my way to vouch for them.
I guess that's not enough for the Jesse Jackson shake 'em down party to consider one "balanced".
Ah yes, we mustn't question the gospel of Head Moonbat al gore.
Good for Home Depot.
"Show me just what Mohammed brought that was new, and there you will find things only evil and inhuman, such as his command to spread by the sword the faith he preached." - Manuel II Palelologus
That statistic isn’t surprising really. FoxNews is still liberal weighted even though they give a fairer shake to other points of view.
But we rarely watch FoxNews anymore. Brit’s show once in a blue moon...
This is so stupid..the same people who advertise on Fox advertise on the Communist news network.
Elkie, what is with that link? It goes to something called “Road Runner”, not an AP story!!!
Where is the REAL AP story link?
I don't like Home Depot. I won't go back there.
However, I do not personally know any Liberals who do home repairs. It makes their wrists hurt, and is beneath them to soil their hands. They espouse Socialist ideas about exalting the Working Man, but have contempt for their plumbers, electricians, and mechanics (Who then gleefully rip them off). I once knew an advertising buyer, who, upon demographic analysis, cancelled a local sports team's broadcast Summer ad buy for a home improvement chain. "People who are watching the games are NOT going to buy lumber".
Likewise, neither are Cambridge or Berkely liberals.
By all means, cancel Fox advertising. It is doing nothing but wasting money, anyway.
Can you link to the source on that? Thanks.
Even if the advertisers are racking up carbon credits???
Same ol' same ol'.
Whats REALLY effective is candlelight vigils. /snicker
Exactly!
Who they really need to focus on is grass roots bloggers and talk radio.
Oh, wait a minute....
All one has to do is speak into that compact box on the chain around their neck and say "I'VE FALLEN AND I CAN'T GET UP"!
If only they could get rid of those Cialis ads.
Liberals continue to stifle dissent. You are allowed free speech only until you disagree with their point of view... Then at best you are politely dismissed at worst you are put away for the good of the DEMOCRACY....
Castro, Chavez, Stalin heck even their buddy Saddam Hussein had similary views
At least the smart ones.
Uhhhmm, FOX News has the highest ratings......
Yeah, right, I am going to miss out on millions of people seeing my advert because a few vocal moonbats don’t like them.
DUH....
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