"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 07/28/2007 3:32:48 AM PDT 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.
“Fox employees give something like 68%-81% of their political donations to Democrats. “
Compared to the rest of the media, that is somewhere to the right of Ghengis Kahn. Liberal Hypocrisy in action. Their freedom of speech must be absolute, but anyone who disagrees with them must be punished, either by boycotts, the fairness doctrine, or good old IRS investigations.
God I hope Fred can reestablish the position of the party. Bush is a decent leader, but he took a dominant party, between Clinton’s sleaze, and the WOT, and has just about wrecked everything politically.
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....
The liberals again show their ignorance of capitalism. The reason why companies advertise on the Fox News channel is that they actually have a large number of viewers and not due to any ideology. If you were trying to boost sales would you rather spend your advertising dollar on MSNBC or CBS News where the number of household tuning in barely equals the population of South Dakota or Fox News that has the largest audience of any cable channel?
Thats no secret that Murdoch/Fox News contribute to Hillary. They had a big fund raiser for her a couple of years ago....reported by NewsMax, WND, and others
Murdoch has supported libs before. Even back in Australia he supported the Labour party in the 1970s.
I guess the point made by some on this thread is that there is some nuttiness in the liberals disdain for Fox...for Fox sides with libs on a number of things
Here’s the link to the FoxNews website story: http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,291246,00.html
You know what they say: Scratch a liberal, find a fascist.
Nooooo!!!...She’ll lose her food stamps!
F’n Stalinists in action. Fox News is pathetic but apparently a threat to leftist totalitarians
Why don't you compare an hour of CNN to an hour of CBS to an hour of FoxNews. Tell me which one has the highest quality advertisers who are paying the most money for airtime
That might be where you live, we have two in the area and the assistants are extremely helpful. I would know since I know practically nothing about building things and I have recently built a 24X40 shed and a 8X6 chicken coop.
Exactly. Left = Totalitarian
Yeah, I'm so sure Home Depot is going to take the advice of a blog that calls for the murder of Dick Cheney and the genocide of the Jews.
They’re screwing with the NASCAR network. Home Depot is one of the biggest sponsors of NASCAR and Foxnews, is by far the largest and best cable news network. The hateful far left is killing the Democrat party. Good!
This is one of those subjects worth lurking on DU to get an idea how much moonbat support is behind it. I dare say they may scare off a few advertisers but they may end up helping a few as well. Sadly this country is split more or less right down the middle and it may be hard to say who has the most consumer clout.
If its not 92% and higher, they’re a channel run by McCarthys and Coulters.
>>>>. If you were trying to boost sales would you rather spend your advertising dollar on MSNBC or CBS News where the number of household tuning in barely equals the population of South Dakota or Fox News that has the largest audience of any cable channel?
That’s right....it is all in the numbers...Last time I looked BOR had 2.8 plus million viewers and his lead over Larry Kerry over at CNN is over a million viewers. Advertiser want bang for the buck. End of sentence.
Fox today, talk radio tomorrow.
I just sent this to every email address at Fox News and to the The Weekly Standard:
RE: Liberal Activists Step Up Campaign Against FOX News
http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,291246,00.html
It’s time to expose MoveOn.org. Much was said by Michael Moore and the left about the Bush family and their investing with the Carlyle Group. The Bush family left the Carlyle Group right after 9/11. George Soros remained with the Carlyle Group and is one of the largest investors in the Carlyle Group today. The Carlyle Group profits from the Military Industrial Complex. George Soros profits from the Military Industrial Complex via the Carlyle Group. George Soros also funds all of the MoveOn.org umbrella groups. In effect, MoveOn.org benefits from the Military Industrial Complex and the Iraq War via George Soros.
MoveOn.org needs to be exposed for the blood money that they have on their hands. Please investigate and expose these hypocrites.
xxx
And how did moveon.org and dailykos feel about the boycotts of the Dixie Chicks?
Liberal means....
....never having to say "I'm competent".
Thus, it comes as no surprise that the Fox staff is 80% liberal, gives heavily to Democrats and dumbs-down its programming to attract more liberals to replace the conservatives they are losing. Having tried to be "fair and balanced," Fox misunderstood the game: By its attempts to correct its image and cater to liberals, in effect admitting a bias, Fox invited a boycott of its advertisers. Fox would have been wiser to have had the courage to stand up to its accusers by arguing product quality. Instead, Fox went wobbly and caved.
But the reward was foreseeable. Liberals never wanted a debate on the issues. They have always wanted a monopoly on the news (and the entertainment media message) that extends from MSM channels to cable to Hollywood to the classroom. That's why liberals steal and destroy newspapers deemed not sufficiently leftist, shout down conservative speakers, are classically intolerant of the beliefs of others, use spokespersons with some flaw that makes them difficult to criticize without looking insensitive (Coulter was right), ban contrary opinion through campaign reform legislation, and push their agenda through the courts since other means have failed.
An effective tactic has been to make their constituents a "protected class" under hate crimes and EEO laws, a key part of their giveaway package. It's right out of the Goebbels play book. Fox put on blinders, and was blindsided. What dupes.
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....never having to say "I'm competent".
Which is CorrectSpeak™ for:
"I maintian my smug moral superiority to compensate for my many personal failures, which I refuse to address.
And of course, being an underendowed cuckold gives me cause to hate all straight men, as well, so I espouse Gay and Feminist causes. I also gloat when _men_ are killed in iraq, but would NEVER admit that."
There’s a Lowe’s 3 blocks from me and I read today that Lowe’s HAS dropped Fox News thanks to viewer complaints!!!!!
“Every ad they run portrays the man of the family being a bumbling buffoon.”
It’s certainly not just Home Depot on that. It’s pretty much every commercial and sit-com.
This hope for some conversion by their exposure to the truth...
(In other words, it might be dangerous for some people to be exposed to the truth.)
“I read today that Lowe’s HAS dropped Fox News thanks to viewer complaints!!!!!”
Really? You won’t mind sourcing that, then.
For the record, the hypocrisy on this thread is so thick it could choke a horse.
It’s pretty sad when people can’t watch news that doesn’t fall in lock-step with their narrow little world view. Most on this thread are just as bad as liberals, just not as organized.
LOL!
They sure do have that brainwashing that the only smart way, the only moral way to be, is liberal. So much for that BS they're always slinging about "intelligent people are able to disagree". I guess their idea of disagreement is "I like Obama, but it's ok that you like Hillary."
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