Combating Liberal Media's Bias!

6/13/2004 | Toby Hill

[Always Right]

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.

To quote the great one, 'we begin bombing in 10 minutes', would have made it more effective.

[tobyhill]

I'll keep that one in mind for my next letter.

[In God I trust]

I don't know if it will change the liberal media's misinformation to the public

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.

[Mister Baredog]

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

Do you know any jihadists?(humor)

[FrankR]

I worked in the media for over 13 years, and from that I learned about the things that scares the hell out of them.

1. Lack of listeners/viewers/readers;
2. Lack of Advertising dollars.

Letters/phone calls - even though they are of a complaining nature - only steel theirs resolve. That only tells them they have "patrons" and that they are "controversial"...which they are.

There are only two sources that scare the media - their managers, and their advertisers. Even the FCC doesn't scare them that much, because they can use a partisan attack on the administration as an excuse.

Ratings/circulation are their report cards...not letters to the editor...and their "report cards" [ratings] are how they sell advertising, and are what advertising agencies use to BUY advertising in competitive markets.

Dig into their viewer/readership, you'll dig in their wallet...and they'll call a board meeting to discuss it.

Write them the nastiest letter you can come up with, and they'll read it around the water cooler and laugh about it. THE MEDIA LOVES TO STIR THINGS UP...THAT GUARANTEES THEM EVEN MORE READERS/VIEWERS/LISTENERS.

They HATE to be IGNORED in any way. Why, if they stopped getting letters of complaint, they would stage some big promotion/controversy to get it going again.

Unless you just want to vent, letters alone will not "combat liberal bias" in the media...it just shows them that they are getting to you...which they want. They are liberals, and crave getting "upset" letters from conservatives.

Go for the wallet.

[Fiddlstix]

.....Unless you just want to vent, letters alone will not "combat liberal bias" in the media...it just shows them that they are getting to you...which they want. They are liberals, and crave getting "upset" letters from conservatives.

Go for the wallet.

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Well Said!
Good Advice!

[tobyhill]

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.

[cookcounty]

" I worked in the media for over 13 years, and from that I learned about the things that scares the hell out of them.

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!)

[wayoverontheright]

There are only two sources that scare the media - their managers, and their advertisers.

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.

[tobyhill]

Pepto-Bismul will get calls from me to.

[cookcounty]

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.

[VRW Conspirator]

Bravo

[TheBlackFeather]

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.

[OSHA]

I'll never forget the '92 election. That is when I woke up to what the elite media was all about. Right up 'tll election day it was "Doom-and-Gloom" about the U.S. economy. One day after Bush's loss tho the Klintoons it was all roses and sunshine. If you remember, The Great Ejaculator took credit for the improved economy before he was even took the oath (must have had his fingers crossed) of office.

[tobyhill]

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.

[tobyhill]

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.

[Free_at_last_-2001]

Go for the wallet. - Agreed! complain to the sponsors not the media! - a leopard cannot change its spots - but it can be starved to death.

[tobyhill]

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.

[PISANO]

Sorry....I may not be able to boycott the products advertized by the MAJOR media/press for I have NOT watched a TV News program (save FOX NEWS) nor bought a main stream newspaper (I subscribe to a neighborhood rag) in 5 years. Also, I listen to only conservative talk radio via local and satellite sources.

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".