Posted on 11/06/2006 8:21:14 PM PST by PresidentFelon
Dear Sirs,
CNN has chosen to wage war on the Republican Party. Some of us, if eventually not all of us at Free Republic, have decided to wage war on you. You will soon find yourselves on the wrong side of an argument over truth and fairness and we believe your network will be seriously damaged by that argument.
After the election, if our effort is successful, GOP Congressmen, Senators, and other political figures will begin to refuse to come on your network or provide interviews for any purpose. As our momentum grows we hope to get enough right-thinking people on board to make it difficult for CNN to find a token Republican face to put on the air. (You can probably still count on Chuck Hagel.)Our goal is to create a buzz, a cacophany of voices determined to strip from CNN any remaining legitimacy as a serious "news" organiztion.
There will be an organized effort to reveal the totality of the blatantly partisan effort CNN has undertaken to help one political party defeat another. A very public outcry by GOP leaders, conservative politicians, and legions of conservative talk-show host will question your basic fairness and fidelity to the American values of honesty and integrity.
Example after example of your incredible bias will be put forth both in public statements and speeches in House Orders. The boycott will last for months if not years. You will be forced to admit the complete absence of ideological and intellectual diversity in your organization. You will be held up as an example of a liberal totalitarian culture where group-think is not only preferred but is required. When our organization gets done with CNN most of America will see your network for what it is....a poorly disguised propaganda organ for the DNC and extreme left.
CNN is run and staffed by people that think the truth is whatever they want it to be and are perfectly comfortable shaping the news to fit their own agendas. The evidence is abundant and the argument is an easy one. By your own actions you have made yourselves incredibly vulnerable. CNN has absolutely no defense for the truth in this matter and you will lose in the court of public opinion. At least millions of more people will be made aware of your outrageous behavior and hopefully they will do what every decent American I know is doing....turning off CNN and asking their family and friends to do the same.
Charles D. McFarling BOYCOTT CNN NOW Indianapolis, Indiana
Ditto that.
I agree that J.R. should be consulted first and also not mention FR without his permission.
As for targeting sponsors. I'm not sure that works. I think that if everyone were to seriously boycott CNN, and the others, their ratings would fall so drastically that their sponsors would not choose to do business with them anymore. Sponsors put their money where they think they get the most coverage for their products. If they see that fewer and fewer people are seeing their advertisements, they will take their ads and money elsewhere.
My disgust with the media is what my straight R vote this year is all about. In 2004 is when I first starting using the internet. What I have discovered about our media absolutely sickens me. I boycott all news channels (xcept FoxNews) and ALL shows on CBS, NBC and ABC. FoxNews-Brit, Gibson and Cavuto is what I watch when I'm in the mood.
Thanks. My TV is set to skip CNN as I channel surf.
No good reason to watch CNN, ever.
I couldn't agree more.
You have freepmail.
How can I boycott something that I don't watch?
How can I stop watching dreck that already is *UNWATCHABLE*.
"Believe me, CNN does not want this fight."
The way they act, I figured they like declining ratings.
"I apologize for the vanity but I'm at my wit's end about the lack of basic fairness in our media. Can somebody steer me where I can find others to help me contact GOP politicos and see if we can't get something started?"
Newsbusters.org is your friend!
http://newsbusters.org/
I listen to conservative talk show hosts on a station that airs CNN news at the top of the hour and bottom of the hour break. CNN has the nerve to call itself the "the most trusted news...", what a joke.
CNN is so irrelevant and should have their heads hung in shame for their deliberate and calculated perfidy and vicious anti-American cheap swill.
I've boycotted ALL the MSM Networks for years now. Yes only once in a bluemoon do I watch FOX even. FOX is fairweather whichever way the wind blows.
Rush and FRee Republic!!!!
Very rarely listen to Hannity anymore and I no longer lisen to Boortz or Savage.
I was surprised I got so many comments in such a short period. I thank evrybody for their comments but nobody has addressed my exact point: If the GOP made a very public display of this and CNN could not find a single republican to grace their studios, what eventually happens to their market share and advertising revenue?
If only David Horowitz was running the RNC (sigh).
PF
Count me in...I HATE CNN
no one there is even a little bit fair
and that includs Glenn Beck
ps: my tagline is no joke, we're in a battle
If I boy*ott the letters *** I wo*'t be able to spell *orre*tly. What do you have agai*st the letters ***?
If I were to boycott CNN, I'd have to start watching it first.
I never, ever watch the Communist News Network anyway. If I wanted that crap, I'd go to a Communist website and read about their agenda myself.
I used to cringe when freepers called CNN the "communist news network" or the "Clinton news network. I saw CNN as a typically liberal leaning news network but relatively fair as far as networks go. However, I've watched them a few times in the past couple of months and they have definitely gone off the deep end. I haven't seen anything so blatantly biased since my days of watching the CBC years ago.
I blasted the cruise line in my critique! If you think CNN is biased, try the international version! Pravda would have been jealous!
CHECK YOUR FREEPMAIL B'BURG CHARLIE!
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