The Rush Limbaugh Proposition: Take the Next Conservative Protest to the News Media’s Doorstep

Newsbusters ^ | September 15, 2009 | Jeff Poor

[Campion]

This tactic *works* and has been used successfully.

A few years back, Dayton-Hudson (parent company of the Target chain) was a big corporate supporter of abortion.

Some pro-lifers bought enough stock that they could introduce a shareholder resolution challenging the abortion contributions on the grounds that they offended pro-life customers and lost business.

Dayton-Hudson caved.

[libstripper]

Thanks for coming up with the specifics on this one. I vaguely remembered it, but not the specifics. With the available clandestine video recording devices, such as the ball point pen camera advertised in the Sharper Image catalog, it would be pretty easy to get into one of those meetings, get a complete video record of the confrontation(s), and post it on YouTube. Corporate leaders do not like to be challenged and can often be very cowardly when firmly confronted. Thus, a concerted effort by MSM stockholders to press for bias investigations and anti-bias resolutions, tied to today's terrible earnings of most MSM entities, could have a major impact. It's certainly a route the Tea Party movement ought to take.

[pabianice]

I propose renaming the Main Stream Media The Rancid Media. They now account for just 29% of the news people get. They are dead and the smell of rot is over-powering. Rancid.

[Jack Bull]

Newspaper offices would be great, too. Are Tea Partiers good with this? Anyone who organizes these things think this is a good idea?

[tunedin]

Looks like plans are underway. Save the date Oct. 14.
http://www.operationcanyouhearusnow.com/

But I do like the shareholder idea.

[Ibleedred]

It’s on! Next National Tea Party takes place nationwide on October 17th, 2009

See http://www.operationcanyouhearusnow.com

Spread the word everywhere!!!