Start today by avoiding NBC News programs. Spend those minutes and hours elsewhere, even if it’s one of the other alphabets to get the mainstream spin. (Remember, fundamentals; one at a time)
The sentiments of hundreds of us on this thread are likely shared by a good portion of the FR nation. And certainly another 47% of the country share some or all of our sentiments. Simply ignore NBC News. They’re irrelevant.
I’ll organize a thread “FR targets NBC News” or some such. Bump it, expose it.
Not to ignore step one, however. I’m hesitant to call it a “boycott”, but a noticeable loss of numbers for NBC News will add up and be noticed. Cable and satellite companies certainly know who’s watching what, when.
But if you can encourage people to write letters and make calls to the sponsors to express concern about the “content NBC airs” etc. you can make a dent.
I worked in the lamestream media for decades and the dweebs at the top are EXTREMELY nervous when their sponsors are targeted.
If nobody watches NBCNews, ratings drop, no one sees their ads, sales for those products drop, sponsors stop advertising there. They're not healthy now. More loss of ad revenue could kill 'em.
I worked in media as well and know sponsor revenue is the key. Maybe you're correct. It can't hurt if sponsors know lots of us are disappointed by NBC News and are changing our news consumption preferences and not spending any time with them.
Exactly Bob! Its amazing just how like minded we all are here. I got the same idea on Monday or Tuesday of last week and wrote it down for today. Going after the sponsors,obviously you can't do the entire network but you can start with their news operations. Just go after news sponsors and do all you can to help their competition and it can work. After all its we who pay the bills. We don't have to spend it with the wrong people.
It can easily be a boycott,you just do it without saying anything to anyone except here on a free forum. There is nothing wrong with boycotting sponsors if we simply do it and help their competitors. We still have free markets.