Wisely, Kathy had no interest in feeding the left-wing Tea Party destruction machine - I am unaware of any favorable reporting of or editorials about the Tea Party by Newsweek and the cover, above, speaks to their opinion of conservatives - so Kathy kept telling Freedlander at most she would do a written interview, not a telephone interview. But apparently he insisted on a telephone interview, and IMO in so doing hid from a process that would have produced a written record of what Kathy actually would have told him. Eventually he told her, according to Kathy, "This is your chance to be heard." Now considering that she was in the forefront of organizing approximately 700,000 Tea Party members to successfully Boycott the first time, and Newsweek has a mostly left-wing audience of just about only double that, it's hard to see how any Conservative would care less about being "heard" in Newsweek's, in my opinion, trashy, hate-filled pages.
.... He never did ask us anything on Twitter. IMO unimaginative at least - would have made for a big, engaging tech/human-interest story for a faded giant. Maybe David just didn't want to find himself in a venue where he did not have 100% control of the message. Anyway, we feel he had his chance to be heard. Anyone can talk as they please, but for our part here, we're no longer interested in speaking with Newsweek, telephone, written or smoke signals. Edit: Freelander says our boycott calculations are not correct. I guess we're supposed to take his word on that. If you scroll down a bit to March 11, we give you links/screenshots to the ratings and an online percentage calculator, and you can calculate the number dip for yourselves. I challenge David to prove his manifestly inaccurate statement by describing the process by which he claims to have disproved the fact that the 1st boycott March 8 -10 brought FOX down by 22%. When uber-left outfit Newsweek defends FOX NEWS numbers against the Tea Party, that should tell all conservatives that FOX really has moved to the wrong side of the fence for conservatives.
So instead of finding the Benghazi Witnesses, a liberal Newsweek bigwig chases us around wondering why the Tea Party is boycotting FOX NEWS, and defending FOX from the Tea Party. Curiouser and Curiouser.
Shemp must go, Whorealdo must go. That would be a start. I like Greta when I can stay up that late and Bret Baier which I try not to miss.
I am not sure I understand the boycott. How are cable ratings measured? I thought they used nielsen. nielsen has there database of users which measures their viewing and they do surveys. So how is this boycott effective?
Am I wrong on this? The nielsen ratings determine ad rates and they get a per subscriber fee from the cable company whether you watch or not.
The only effective boycott would be to cut the cable and boycott the products advertised, letting the advertisers know that you are not buying their products because of their advertising on television. Pretty much all national name brand products would fit this bill, so buying generic store brand whenever you can would be the easiest way to go.
Media(print,tv,radio) has never been objective, they have always had a bias. The only way to combat the bias is competition. The corrupt media formerly known as mainstream does not compete. They operate as a cartel. Since they all have the same agenda, they agree on which stories to spike and the spin to put on the news.
I think the only way to fight the media corruption is to pull the plug on tv cable, to stop the subscriber fees. And let the cable company know you will re-subscribe when they offer a la carte packages, so you do not have to pay for channels you do not want.
Plus stop buying the products being advertised and let the advertisers know why. Support local businesses over national chains, buy generic, etc.
I stopped watching O’Reilly when he attacked the Swift Boat Vets, so thats been a long time ago now. He always struck me as a fraud in any case, always offering himself as the sane middle between two straw men.
I haven’t watched Fox at all since Beck left, except for special events like election night.
Fox is not and never has been a "conservative" network. Conservatives are prominent and given a respectful hearing, but Fox is "fair and balanced". It's reporting is in the middle. Fox News only seems conservative in comparision to the commie fascist statist networks everywhere else.