Posted on 07/27/2007 6:32:53 PM PDT by Phil in San Diego
| NEW YORK (AP) - Liberal activists are stepping up their campaign against Fox News Channel by pressuring advertisers not to patronize the network. MoveOn.org, the Campaign for America's Future and liberal blogs like DailyKos.com are asking thousands of supporters to monitor who is advertising on the network. Once a database is gathered, an organized phone-calling campaign will begin, said Jim Gilliam, vice president of media strategy for Brave New Films, a company that has made anti-Fox videos. The groups have successfully pressured Democratic presidential candidates not to appear at any debate sponsored by Fox, and are also trying to get Home Depot Inc. to stop advertising there. At least 5,000 people nationwide have signed up to compile logs on who is running commercials on Fox, Gilliam said. The groups want to first concentrate on businesses running local ads, as opposed to national commercials. "It's a lot more effective for Sam's Diner to get calls from 10 people in his town than going to the consumer complaint department of some pharmaceutical company," Gilliam said. Some of videos produced by Gilliam's company compile statements made by Fox anchors and guests that the activists consider misleading, such as those that question global warming. Representatives for Fox News Channel, which is owned by News Corp., did not immediately return calls for comment. Home Depot has not had an unusual number of calls, said spokesman Jerry Shields, and the home improvement chain will not change its advertising strategy. "We're not in the business of censoring media," Shields said. "We need to reach our customer base through all mediums available." Groups like the Sierra Club have targeted Home Depot because they believe it's inconsistent for the company to promote environmentally friendly products while advertising on a network that has questioned global warming. The groups seem particularly angry at Fox's Bill O'Reilly, who has done critical reports on left-wing bloggers. On July 16, O'Reilly said the DailyKos.com Web site is "hate of the worst order," and sent a reporter to question JetBlue Airways Corp. CEO Dave Barger about the airline's sponsorship of a gathering run by DailyKos. He'll never ride on JetBlue again, O'Reilly said. MoveOn.org is campaigning against Fox because it says the network characterizes itself as a fair news network when it consistently favors a conservative point of view, said Adam Green, the organization's spokesman. "We're not trying to silence anybody," Green said. "Rush Limbaugh has a right to be on the air—he admits his point of view. Fox doesn't." |
I say we return the favor by calling advertisers on the liberal PBS/NPR.
I’ve had it with these leftist idiots.
These morons won’t be happy until they have a monopoly on all the news outlets. Why don’t they start their own newspaper, and call it Pravda.
Yes, we can organize a similar boycott against advertisers on CBS, NBC, ABC, CNN, MSNBC as well. Nothing to it - except determination and volunteers. The difference is Soros PAYS the liberal “volunteers”. Conservatives do it for the love of freedom and country.
My first thought was this means war, conservatives should band together and do the same exact thing.
Let's see - 80% of the media is controlled by liberals.
The country is split about 50/50.
I like the odds!
Umm... Not the same. Non-commercial networks; with sponsors that back whole shows, not 30-second commercials. The comparable thing would be to go after the people who back Keith Olbermann on MSNBC.
Why don’t the liberals listen to Air America and frequent their advertisers instead?
These Communists are getting bolder and bolder.
They need to get their posterior kicked to Cleveland.
We are heading toward a major historical restructuring in this country—we can’t continue being this divided indefinitely.
And ABCCBSNBCCNNMSNBC . . .
It’s a two-way street.
What exactly is their goal — to destroy the U.S. Constitution by denying freedom of speech? Or freedom of the press?
Maybe it’s just sour grapes because they can’t get anybody to listen to them — except, of course, the political workers who fill up their audiences.
So how about writing the sponsors and thanking them for advertising on Fox News, and committing to supporting their products by buying their stuff?
I’m sure DiTech is quaking in their boots.
I used to refer to these liberal pain in the ass*s as ankle biters. When studying history, it has become very apparent to me that these liberals/communists/socialists will not go away. They will continue fighting on the wrong side and therefore, we better be ready to continue fighting on the right side! This is absolute war.
I didn’t realize that Fox advertisers accepted food stamps.
Wow - they’re gonna take a real hit. /sarc
Yeah, they’re not liberals and people just use it because they’re used to it. It’s just like all the sportswriters and commentators who still call millionaire Olympic athletes like Michelle Kwan and Michael Phelps “amateurs.”
Democrats will also try to manipulate stock market indexies so the can talk about a ‘Bush’ recession.
A boycott of consumers is one thing, a phone campaign directly to advertisers is an effort at restraint of trade!
Why don’t the liberals listen to Air America and frequent their advertisers instead?
Cause they don’t have any advertisers?
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