Boycott of FOX

Vanity | 11-06-08 | Veritas 2002

[veritas2002]

I propose that we punish the FOX Network for its hatchet job on Sarah Palin.

For one week beginning at 3:00 PM today no one tunes them in. We will demonstrate the power of conservatives when their ratings plummet dramatically.

Will you join me?

[pollywog]

YESSERIE!!! NO FOX HERE!

[auusn]

Done.....

[veritas2002]

Good idea. Send this to every conservative blog and we will spread a boycott of FOX so that they won’t know what hit them!

[FrankR]

"For one week beginning at 3:00 PM today"

I don't think it works that way - they don't have a "meter" to tell them how many people are tuning in at any given time.

It's done with "ratings", i.e. surveys...i.e. polls...and we all know how reliable they are.

There are only certain times during the year (excepting internal polls, which are naturally skewed) when they are taken.

The only thing that will affect them immediately is emails and letters. Now if you really want to get their attention, tell them what you think about them, and then "cc" CNN, ABC, CBS, and NBC/MS-NBC.

They don't want their competition knowing that their "fan base" is upset...especially right now.

And while your at it, please tell O'Riley, Sean, and the rest to let their damn guests finish answering the questions they ask, and stop talking over each other. This doesn't work with human hearing with all the voices coming from the same source...you can't single out a voice by direction like you can in a crowded noisy room...it turns into gibberish. That's usually when I change the station and watch the Game Show Network.

[silentreignofheroes]

Started today.

And sent them an E-mail stating I might not be the only one.

[Bobalu]

Who will know if I don’t tune in?

Rest assured that someone at FOX is monitoring this very thread and that it is quite troubling to them.....anyone in media with a brain watches FR closely.

[Skeptical constituent]

I had given up on television long ago, except to use it to watch DVD’s of my own choosing. We have literally hundreds of channels and there is nothing watchable except for TCM, because that channel shows movies that were made when Americans were proud and when the future was still bright. I get my news from talk radio and Free Republic and my entertainment from activities more important to the mind and body than TV has to offer. I join in your call for boycott, and go one better, tun off the TV!

[Skeptical constituent]

I had given up on television long ago, except to use it to watch DVD’s of my own choosing. We have literally hundreds of channels and there is nothing watchable except for TCM, because that channel shows movies that were made when Americans were proud and when the future was still bright. I get my news from talk radio and Free Republic and my entertainment from activities more important to the mind and body than TV has to offer. I join in your call for boycott, and go one better, tun off the TV!

[granite]

I put the Weather Channel on yesterday, and will probably watch it through the Winter.

[jrcats]

I agree. I’m tired of their slant towards the left. Its been going on for months. Guess they don’t need us Republican viewers. The only reason I voted Republican this time was because of Sara & not McCain. McCain is just a Moderate Dem. We need to get to get rid of the primaries that determine who are Republican candidate would be like it happened this time.

[softwarecreator]

I agree. Except for Cavuto and Hannity, they are starting to become CNN jr.

I used to watch O'Reilly but after watching him suck up to Obama I tuned him out. I can listen to Hannity on Sirius.

This should be an easy boycott.

[montag813]

Also, I suggest freepers send complaints about Shep Fag to foxnews.com. Also, perhaps some NY Freepers can get photos of Shep and his boyfriend and post it online.

[safisoft]

I started last week. I feel better already!

[dormee]

Neil is good and fair. So are the three on Fox and Friends. The rest of them have gone to the dark side with the MSM. You watch though....they’ll be the first station to blast Obama for anything they don’t like. They anointed him and now they’ll try and crucify him. They want the ratings.

[Caper29]

Carl Cameron


DB Cooper? Hmmmmmm?

[SE Mom]

I listen to Neil at 4 on FOX and now will listen to him at 6 on FBN.

I can listen to Rush and Levin when it’s convenient and use the internet.

[Miss Behave]

Thread bump.

This idea is a gentle reminder and nudge to me to BE TRUE to conviction.

I am going to be focusing A LOT more to that end, SERIOUSLY, for these next four years. I will think TWICE about everything that I do, before I do it, to cognizantly do THE right (and easy, really,) thing with all habits and dealings.

On my honor, I will try: To serve God and my country,....

Girl Scout Promise.

[Inclines to the Right]

I am going for the Triple Dog Boycott....

Not much tv going on around here these days. Definitely haven’t been impressed with Fox. I don’t get up regularly for Fox & Friends (too early here)...are they joining in on the pile-on?

[FreeAtlanta]

We built these clowns, they betrayed us. How many Freepers used to go and switch store tvs to fox and then leave it on? How many of you promoted Fox to everyone you knew?

We need a new tv news channel that is completely conservative. We have the talent. Rush, Ingraham, Levin, Hannity, Beck, Boortz, and others. Until then, I am cancelling cable.

[South40]

I don’t watch Fox, I get all the news I need from FR.