Posted on 06/13/2004 8:55:11 AM PDT by tobyhill
After numerous attempts to correct liberal bias in the media, I have not seen any positive results so I sent this letter to the heads of liberal bias media sources.
"In my opinion, as stated many times, I do not believe the overall media, including this media source, has portrayed President Bush in a fair manner. There have been negative after negative articles and opinions placed systematically in the media to over-shadow any positive. If any positive portrayal is given to President Bush, it has been small and placed in the rears. For this reason, I believe the media is attempting to influence upcoming elections. I refuse to be brainwashed by the media! Because of my belief the media is bias, I feel, I must contact heads of advertisers and let them know of my feelings. I will advise them that I will no longer buy their products based on their advertising in the media source. In my opinion, since the media has refused to be fair and some media's opinion that "one" individual doesn't matter anyway, I will also place my idea on a very, very, very large website that incorporates like minds and allows others to generate more ideas of how this media bias can be responded to".
Thank you.
I don't know if it will change the liberal media's misinformation to the public, I doubt it, but I'm at end of my rope with them. Please comment. Suggestions welcome.
I hope, I haven't broken any rules with regards to posting this?
Your honor to the right-side is admired and the fact that you have already contributed to the cause is the issue that matters the most.
Again, Thank you.
I have sent my first letter to an advertiser, Best Buy. I perfer the phone but the internet works well. It reads as follows.
"Because your profit margin is good but you continue to advertise with liberal media sources that scrutinize unfairly President Bush and the improving economy, I have decided to no longer purchase items from your stores. Besides, if things were so bad, as according to the liberal media, I couldn't afford anything from you anyway".
Thank you
I remember that very well. I also remember a "reporter" asking a Clintonoid his opinion of what turned the economy around so fast. "It was the confidence that the public feels now that Clinton was elected," was the answer; and that was how it was reported for what passed as "journalists" in those days.
In those days there was no talk radio (FCC "Fairness Doctrine" was used by JFK/LBJ liberals to complain about opposing ideas thus threatening station owners' licenses) and no Internet. Many cities still however had conservative newspapers and there were limited circulation publications like National Review and weeklies like Time and U.S. News were real journalism in those days. Newsweek was like the networks. We got by.
There's been so much written about the bias why complain? Even apolitical folks know it.
"They are liberals, and crave getting "upset" letters from conservatives." See post #6
Or, become a major advertiser on the networks. Then you can dictate. See #10
Or, the best alternative and the one I chose almost ten years ago, throw the TV away. Even when I'm in hotels I unplug the damn then. I feel years younger, my hair is starting to grow back, my arthritis went away. . . .
I am not "upset" but whatever I can do to force the issue I will do. The economy is good. Iraq is improving. I'm so limited where I live with print press. These are things that I want to hear about and are tucked away, if at all, in little corners of the media but the negative covers front and center. It's not fair and I will do whatever I can, with willing help, to make a change for the truth and better.
Over the past few months, I've become increasingly disgusted with the treatment nearly all major news shows have presented in dealing with President Bush, the war on terror, Iraq & Afghanistan, and his policies in other areas. The bias is incredible, to the point of outright lying to the American public, and hiding other details which they refuse to report.
I've reviewed your website, and despite seeing many issues that do need attention, the case must be made for fair and balance reporting to the public, as opposed to the propaganda it is currently being served.
I hope you can begin some review of this situation, and bring some light to the failure of the news organizations to report facts accurately and without regard to any particular party or ideology.
It's a different approach than trying to change the advertisers or networks. FCC will be next.
The average viewer of the network evening newscasts as of 2004 is sixty years old. Many baby boomers got sick of them years ago, and the Gen-X/Gen-Y crowd never trusted them in the first place.
The average age for the cable news channels is only a few years younger.
You're absolutely right. The way to succeed in the Gannett organization is to make money for the company, period.
Congratulations on a job well done, by the way!
It's not illegal to be biased. There are only a very few things that can cost a station its license, and annoying the public isn't one of them. The FCC could recive angry letters from every single person in the station's signal path, and it wouldn't matter one bit. There hasn't been a single station license revoked anywhere in the United States since 1998, and that one happened only because the station owner lied to the FCC about moving its transmitter site.
Like others have said on this thread, go for the wallet. The government is not going to take their licenses away or fine them.
Also remember that advertising is bull. It's just payoffs to the media to not report negatively on their product. No one changes from Ford to Chevy from watching a commercial. When cigarette companies were banned from paying off the networks, they were savaged. When Mac stopped buying adds, the media suddenly found all sorts of problems.
Remember CNN with 1/2 the audience of Fox gets much pricier advertisement because liberals control the ad agencies (filthy nasty humans that they are). It's not entirely about ratings.
No sane person would destroy Hollywood with the crap that they produce when the market is easy to predict. But, the liberals do because it isn't only about money. "Progressive" movies don't sell, yet they make them because they continue to make money. (Off the point, Showtime is making sympathetic movie about the Rosenbergs - evils SOBs that they were. What sort of vile human would even consider such a vicous thing?)
But, eventually, it will work. The rats will eventually stop making money and someone will step in to take it from them.
Don't give up. Don't send them letters. Send them to those that are doing it right. Don't let the rats make up the history. Reagan was great because he destroyed socialism and returned America to greatness.
Just don't patronize businesses that have a big "F*** YOU" sign on the door, and you'll be all right.
Duh, the editorial staff managed to malign tobacco, booze, oil ...
Perhaps that is the only type of advertising left available?
Yeah, right. I took a look because of your post. Some rationality (against describing how to kidnap young girls),
but plenty of irrational (against wondering if victims of sexual abuse "put out more") kneejerk responses.
That's just two of the top stories. Go to the "alternative periodicals" and "Bunny Huggers Gazette" stands out, and
a lot of lesbian, black, multicultural pubs.
No TAS or National Review.
Thank you. I will not patronize any business and stay away from the "F***YOU" sign on the door. There's too much of that already.
The profession must consist of professionals and should be truthful in reporting. The lying liberal media consist of liars which fall them short of professional.
The infection, Degenerative Democrat Denial Disease, is way too ingrained. There is no hope for the written press folks..They are cross pollinated with TV anchors, left wing college profs and most govt. employee unions,,,,..........
I am aware of all the pitfalls of my endeavors but if I have to buy a used car, I will.
Thank you
It's not about the right to be bias, it's about my rights not to take the lies anymore and my rights to express my opinion to whomever I feel like. If it effects their business even at .00001% then I will feel I have accomplished something positive for the "Right Cause".
My mission begins with advertisers and not FCC.
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