Posted on 01/24/2006 9:39:09 AM PST by nmh
Because of your efforts, NBC cancels 'Book of Daniel'
Dear (just received this through e-mail),
NBC's anti-Christian program The Book of Daniel has been cancelled! Your efforts, combined with those of hundreds of thousands of other AFA Online supporters, had an impact.
NBC's decision to pull The Book of Daniel shows the power of the pocketbook. NBC didn't want to eat their economic losses. Had NBC not had to eat millions of dollars each time it aired, NBC would have kept The Book of Daniel on the air. Because of your efforts, the sponsors dropped the program. NBC then decided it didn't want to continue the fight.
Even an impassioned plea by Daniel's producer Jack Kenny could not match your participation. "Ordinarily, I would never ask anyone to do this, but the AFA and bullies like them are hard at work to try and prevent you from seeing these beautiful shows, and that is censorship—pure and simple. And that is both un-Christian and un-American," Kenny wrote. His attitude is typical in today’s society. Non-Christians telling Christians what is Christian.
People like Kenny don't want people like you to have a voice. They want to deny you the right to get involved. You are supposed to sit back and take the trash. And when you do speak up they call you names.
This shows us that we don't have to simply sit back and take the trash, but we can get involved and fight back with our pocketbooks. I want to thank the 678,394 individuals who sent emails to NBC and the thousands who called and emailed their local affiliates.
Thanks for caring enough to get involved!
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Sincerely,
Don
Donald E. Wildmon, Founder and Chairman American Family Association
P.S. Please forward this e-mail message to your family and friends!
I "censored" Burger King yesterday by going to McDonald's.
However, looking at my map, apart from the Buffalo DMA, the rest of upstate NY, viewing measurment would be recorded by Diary-Only (Watertown, Albany, Syracuse, Elmire, Utica, Binghamton, Rochester DMAs, etc.)
Why should anyone be tolerant of open insults, slander, and attacks on their deeply-held faith?
Have to agree with Mewzilla here. Sure, the ratings were low, but if it had been doing CSI-style ratings and no advertisers had been stepping up, that would have been it. Networks are in the profitmaking business, and both low ratings and unwilling advertisers hit right in the pocketbook.
There is a long list of actors whose careers took off after they appeared in a homosexual scene. The rumor (only a rumor) is that in Hollywood, there is an unwritten code that an actor's career will be put on the fast track by the higher ups of the industry if they agree to be involved in a homosexual scene.
With all due respect, this show died because it was horrible. It was badly written, badly directly and pretty much overall just brutal to watch.
Don't get me wrong, I'm very happy it was cancelled...but I doubt a boycott had anything to do with it.
People won't watch bad shows for very long, regardless of its' content.
All I know is that TV programs look more and more to me like TV produced by the blue bits for the blue bits. We've got three boob tubes and they're mostly collecting dust.
Need some pain pills, Jack-o?
I seriously doubt it had anything to do with this group's boycott... the show just sucked. Dozens of shows are canceled every year for the same reason.
We had a Nielsen box when I was a kid. They called us up and asked if we had disconnected it because we rarely watched TV.
They came out and took it.
I guess our watching habits couldn't justify selling airtime, so we didn't really represent a section of Americans they wanted to acknowledge.
It HAS to be next.
I watched the first episode. Usually this would be as good as it's gonna get. It was just awful. Silly, completely unbelievable story subplots, left us not caring what happens to the characters. If she wasn't being so well compensated for her time, I would be genuinely embarrassed for Geena Davis.
I said the "Book of Daniel" was actually dead on arrival. And...so is Geena (Hillary Clinton) Davis in "Commander-in-Chief"! And...I was right. I have also said the the movie "Brokeback Mountain" will do more damage to gays then it will do good. While the movie is being raved about by the left-wing, liberal, gay, Democrat sorts, the fact is, the only reason has it has good revenue stream is that gays and left-wing Democrats are seeing it over and over again to drive the dollar numbers up. Same scenerio via Fahrenheit 911. $119M in revenue, but beaten into the ground by a $100K political ad produced by the Swift Boat Vets.
Gays like Democrats always overreach, and you will see that time will undo "Brokeback Mountain" the same way Fahrenheit 911 had no political impact whatsoever. You cannot pee down most folks backs and tell them it's raining. It just does not work. The films of the day, Munich, Syriana, Good Night & Good Luck, Brokeback Mountain are all dead on arrival. Check out the revenue numbers. Now a muscle movie, like Disney's "Narnia" sitting at close to $300M domestically and another $300M internationally should be a winner because it was a great picture about the forces of family and, evil versus good. Methinks, and this is only a hunch, the Academy will award the best picture to "Walk the Line" (June Carter & Johnny Cash) We shall see. I think "Hollywood" is getting nervous!!! I have nothing against gays, but really, fags just don't cut it in the "real" world of common folk!!!
If somebody calls my wife a whore and I tell him to get out of my house, is that intolerant? This show insulted Christ, who I love, and every Christian who deserves the name "Christian."
So, if someone wants to say writing a letter to a TV network and asking them to stop calling my Lord an idiot (and my family a bunch of hedonist hypocrites) is "intolerant," then that's a new definition of intolerance.
Fairly accurately, I imagine. Statiscal sampling, if it's done properly, can be done highly accurately.
There are some potential problems. People with Nielsen boxes may cheat, and this could be done for different reasons. First, if the person likes a particular show, he may lie about how many people are watching the show. This could artificially boost ratings. Next, the person may change his viewing habits with the Nielsen box in the room. They may like a particular show, and although they don't feel like watching it (it's a repeat, a better, one time movie is on HBO, etc), they will either watch it (or at least leave the TV on so the box records it) or claim they watched it.
Political polling has a few problems: people don't want to admit they aren't voting for the minority race candidate, for instance.
What sampling can do, though, is allow you to ask a relatively small group of people, and extrapolate that to as if you asked everyone in the country. If there's a black guy running against a white guy, the white guy is usually going to get a few percent more than in the polls, but that's not because the polls were improperly sampled: if Gallup called and reached every household, there would still be the overstating of black support.
A problem that political pollsters have that Nielsen probably doesn't is determining if that person is really going to vote. Nielsen at least knows if you've turned on the TV.
Any poll also needs to make sure that the samples are representative of the population they are seeking to measure. Doing a nationwide poll of anything, but confining your sample to residents of Manhattan, is going to yield wacked out results. Oversampling Republicans or Democrats is going to skew the poll. In telephone polls, there's the risk that you are underpolling certain population segments not likely to take calls from strangers on their Caller IDs.
People like this think being Christian means being "nice" and "unoffensive." You've got to wonder if they've ever picked up a Bible.
Yup. Not too accurate. A lot depends on memory and there is a tons to write down. The first day in the diary is Thursday and the last day is Wednesday.
The set meters were introduced in 1987 to give a more accurate reflection of what people were watching.
Thanks for the clarification.
No, but Family Guy is close enough.
Despite it's heavy liberal slant, I thought "The West Wing" was an excellent show.
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