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To: The Hollywood Conservative

Hell, how many times can I boycott Disney?

The better approach is to personally call your local ABC affiliate and calmly explain why you will no longer be watching their local news. A locals big, big source of revenue is from local news advertising.

I did this last week with the CBS affiliate and the station manager was very apologetic. I explained I would give Rather a pass on the documents, but the reinstitution of the draft story was a blatant falsehood, which CBS admittedly knew and ran with anyway. I gave my name and number and told him to call me when Rather was gone and the news department overhauled. He actually thanked me for my politeness.


3 posted on 10/09/2004 8:22:52 AM PDT by Founding Father
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To: Founding Father

Rather screwed up on the memos when he INSISTED that we consider the content even if they were forgeries and attacked those who pointed out details that cast doubt on the authenticity.

He stood behind his "facts" for a week and attacked his critics rather than saying that they had been called into question and would be put on the back burner until further substance was determined.

Looks like Dan Rather won't be fired. His employer should have been held to the wall that week. The sheep have been lulled back to sleep.


60 posted on 10/09/2004 12:32:26 PM PDT by weegee (What's the provenance, Kenneth? Where did the forged SeeBS memo come from?)
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To: Founding Father
The better approach is to personally call your local ABC affiliate ...

Check out who the owner is as well. Make sure the owning company gets a copy of your complaint.

For example, the company that owns WGME (a CBS affiliate in southern Maine) is owned by Sinclair. When I complained about CBS, and explained why I would tune in football via radio before tuning in WGME, the owner found out why too.

66 posted on 10/09/2004 5:12:49 PM PDT by Cboldt
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