Fox needs to go after this scumbag with full force!
Posted on 05/18/2011 11:02:50 PM PDT by Publius804
Glenn Beck, it turns out, was just a warm-up for Media Matters. This week, the progressive watchdog group launched a campaign targeting all companies that advertise on Beck's TV home, the Fox News Channel.
Headquarters for the campaign is a website called DropFox.com that was unveiled Monday. Front and center at the site is the group's first targeted advertiser: Orbitz Worldwide.
Next to the Orbitz logo on Wednesday was a photo of Beck above the tagline, "Buyer Beware: Why Advertisers Should Still Be Wary of Financially Supporting Fox News."
Click Beck's photo and it takes you to charts and data designed to show that a boycott of his TV show organized by Media Matters led to advertisers fleeing and Fox News ditching him, despite high ratings.
Orbitz is a target at DropFox because the online travel company has embraced lesbians, gays, bisexuals and transgenders, a community Media Matters says Fox News maligns.
Clicking the Orbitz logo takes visitors to a letter addressed to CEO Barney Harford that asks him to yank Orbitz ads from Fox News based in part on things hosts Bill O'Reilly and Mike Huckabee have allegedly said.
O'Reilly, according to the letter, has compared same-sex nuptials to people marrying turtles, ducks or dolphins, while Huckabee compared homosexuality to pedophilia and necrophilia.
The letter ends: "It is our sincere hope that you will rethink your decision to support (Fox News) financially through ad revenue."
Fox News didn't respond to requests for comment. Beck, though, on his Wednesday radio show belittled claims that large numbers of advertisers have abandoned him, noting that the Forbes Celebrity 100 list released Wednesday ranks him higher this year than it did last year.
(Excerpt) Read more at hollywoodreporter.com ...
Why not advertise on the ed or o’donnell shows? They’ll got so much more for their money.
not
Advertisers are more than welcome to go with Chrissy the Hissing Sissy on MS-DNC, but since there is no viewership for that show, I say go for broke since that’s where those advertisers will wind up - broke. Maybe “Depends” would be a good advertiser for Chrissy due to his “tinkle down the leg” problem.
I think the folks at Media Matters need to get a life.
This is their life.
I say use the Media Matter’s tools on MSNBC advertisers. Two can play that game. ;)
Wathcdog group. Yeah right. Watchdog groups don’t call for boycotts because they disagree politically. Democrat-controlled lobbying group is more like it
Rabid dog group.
How about fascists and economic terrorists?
Fox needs to go after this scumbag with full force!
Where is Media Matters headquartered? I might want to pay them a little visit. Their website does not list a physical location, just a D.C PO box.
...isn’t Media Matters legally a non partisan, non activist group?
It’s time to take their tax exempt status.
(It’ll never happen, but they should lose it....)
Media Matters should reconsider their 501(c)(3) status which is designated for religious, charitable, scientific, literary, or educational purposes.
ViA MM web site/About Us: "Media Matters for America is a Web-based, not-for-profit, Obtaining status 501(c)(3) progressive research and information center dedicated to comprehensively monitoring, analyzing, and correcting conservative misinformation in the U.S. media."
MMFA is a political group with $10 million-plus in annual funding describing its mission to wage war against Fox News, the GOP and conservatives especially of prominence who might threaten the goals of the Left.
Founder, David Brock, described in an interview as an all-out campaign of “guerrilla warfare and sabotage” aimed at the Fox News Channel.The strategy that we had had toward Fox was basically a strategy of containment,” said Brock.
"The new strategy, he said, is a “war on Fox.”
“Criticizing Fox News has nothing to do with criticizing the press,” its memo says. “Fox News is not a news organization. It is the de facto leader of the GOP, and it is long past time that it is treated as such by the media, elected officials and the public.”
Section 501(c)(3) organizations are subject to limits or absolute prohibitions on engaging in political activities. However, presenting public forums and publishing voter education guides) conducted in a non-partisan manner do not constitute prohibited political campaign activity."
Media Matters of America
455 Massachusetts Ave NW # 600
Washington D.C., DC 20001-2774
(202) 756-4100
Media Matters for America
455 Massachusetts Avenue, NW, Suite 600
Washington
DC
But the Right has our favorite media watchdog group [much more classy does not call for boycotts to take away jobs]:
Media Research Center
325 S. Patrick Street
Alexandria
VA
CNS News. Com, Culture & Media Institute, Conservative News
Service, Business & Media institute
Why bother having laws if we’re just going to ignore them?
...of "insider trading" within the government--they never get around to making a law that would monitor government insider trading activity which could benefit a congressman etc, their family or their employees from "insider" knowledge, through "upcoming" bills, "new" regulations and the like.
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