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?
To quote the great one, 'we begin bombing in 10 minutes', would have made it more effective.
I'll keep that one in mind for my next letter.
I've been writing letters like this for a couple of years now and I haven't seen a thing change yet. I no longer waste my time with it. Maybe someday more people will actually have enough of the media's bias and really do something on a grand scale, but until that happens these people just laugh at our little letters they get. I'm not trying to burst your bubble, but it is a lost cause until more people join in.
Do you know any jihadists?(humor)
Well Said!
Good Advice!
I am willing to express my views to the heads of the advertisers. Not as a threat but a promise that as far as their sales go to me, it's over. I still have Freedom of speech.
1. Lack of listeners/viewers/readers;
2. Lack of Advertising dollars.' Well, the Alphabets are down 30-40% in viewership. It has not affected them is the slightest. I think they are content to go for the "Old and Bitter" segment of the public.
(have you ever noticed the kind of adverising they draw? ---pretty much confined to medicine for upset stomach, depression, and impotence!)
You are SO right.
I own a business which does a fair amount of advertising with the region's dominant newspaper. It is owned by Gannet, which also owns the Richmond Times, a moderately conservative paper. In early April, another business man and I met with the publisher, and appealed to her sense of business. We told her that, as business people we felt maligned by the Democratic Party, reviled as evil and hard-hearted, and that we felt that the Republican party comprised our only defense.
We reminded her of what she already knew, that the area votes 65% Republican, yet her editorial page prints Maureen Dowd, Paul Krugman, Helen Thomas, Robert Scheer, etc., etc., with an occaisonal vistit from Cal Thomas. We told her that we could not go forward in good conscience with what we had done in the past in the way of advertising.
She asked "well, who do you want?" I just happened to have that day's Washington Times with me in my office, I pulled it out, and read her the names of the columnists while she wrote. On last Thursday Paul Greenberg appeared for the first time ever, and this morning's paper introduced Thomas Sowell as a new columnist.
We are SO proud.
This particular publisher is not completely conservative, but not as liberal as those who were controlling her commentary and editorial page. I think she simply saw the wisdom of catering to the larger market, and I have no doubt that two things will happen. The liberals in the area will squeal bloody murder, and beseige the paper with letters, and if she sticks to her guns the paper will sell more papers and more advertising.
Pepto-Bismul will get calls from me to.
Probably there is a symbiotic relationship between the evening News and the viewers: The Big Three and their "three stooges" deliver the news in a way to give upset stomach, depression and impotence. Then, at the point of greatest experienced need, the pharmeceuticals trot out salvation in a pill.
Bravo
Since all of these broadcasters are supposed to be responsible to FCC regulations, isn't it possible to begin filings & complaints to the FCC AGAINST the broadcasters, detailing their bias? As long as the incidents noted in the complaints to FCC are true and well-documented as to proof, licence renewal time can be very difficult for them when they have a stack of complaints in their files.
As a mass experiment, I would not mind if numerous like-minded honest people also send the letter or similar in order to see if a change can be made to the liberal media's rhetoric. I doubt it, but it's worth a try.
Trust me, I remember the gloom and doom outlook in 94. People with common sense knows that the economy is improving now but getting the word out to the pessimist is going to take the media and there's no sign they are cooperating. Horror sells but idiots are buying.
That's the goal. I will not threaten with a letter but follow through with calling the advertisers if changes aren't made. It will be systematic and begin with the closest ad to the article.
At 60 plus years of age I ALREADY KNOW THE ENEMY, I don't require daily doses of commie propaganda to "UNDERSTAND the DARK side".
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