Posted on 03/24/2013 6:43:20 AM PDT by Mozilla
Is Fox News going soft?
That is what a number of Tea Party activists are saying and they are organizing a boycott to protest the conservative stations coverage, especially what they view as the networks relative silence in investigating the attacks on a diplomatic mission in Benghazi, Libya.
Particularly after the election, Fox keeps turning to the left, said Stan Hjerlied, 75, of Fort Collins, Colo., and a participant in the boycott. He pointed to an interview Fox News CEO Roger Ailes gave after the election in which he said that the Republican Party and Fox News need to modernize, especially around immigration. So we are really losing our only conservative network.
The three-day boycott lasted Thursday morning through Sunday morning, and is the second time this group of activists have gone Fox-free in an effort to steer the coverage. Organizers say a two-day boycott earlier this month knocked 20 percent off of the networks regular viewership. (A Daily Beast analysis of the same data showed that the boycott had little effect.)
A spokeswoman for Fox News did not respond to a request for comment.
A leader of the boycott, Kathy Amidon, of Nashville, declined an interview, instead directing The Daily Beast to a website, Benghazi-Truth. The website, a single-page, 23,000-word manifesto complete with multicolored fonts, supposedly incriminating videos of Fox Newss complicity in a coverup, and communist propaganda photographs, is kept by someone who identifies himself online as Proe Graphique, and who other members of boycott described as someone who works in New York media.
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Organizers then encourage would-be Fox News viewers to wait until the One America network, which is supposed to launch this summer as an alternative to Fox, goes on the air.
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They are getting closer to nudity every day.
The bad part is that we can’t tell what is news and what is hype.
I almost long for the days of the monotone announcer
Then conservatives need to have more children!
I am not sure I understand the boycott. How are cable ratings measured? I thought they used nielsen. nielsen has there database of users which measures their viewing and they do surveys. So how is this boycott effective?
Am I wrong on this? The nielsen ratings determine ad rates and they get a per subscriber fee from the cable company whether you watch or not.
The only effective boycott would be to cut the cable and boycott the products advertised, letting the advertisers know that you are not buying their products because of their advertising on television. Pretty much all national name brand products would fit this bill, so buying generic store brand whenever you can would be the easiest way to go.
Media(print,tv,radio) has never been objective, they have always had a bias. The only way to combat the bias is competition. The corrupt media formerly known as mainstream does not compete. They operate as a cartel. Since they all have the same agenda, they agree on which stories to spike and the spin to put on the news.
I think the only way to fight the media corruption is to pull the plug on tv cable, to stop the subscriber fees. And let the cable company know you will re-subscribe when they offer a la carte packages, so you do not have to pay for channels you do not want.
Plus stop buying the products being advertised and let the advertisers know why. Support local businesses over national chains, buy generic, etc.
I stopped watching O’Reilly when he attacked the Swift Boat Vets, so thats been a long time ago now. He always struck me as a fraud in any case, always offering himself as the sane middle between two straw men.
I haven’t watched Fox at all since Beck left, except for special events like election night.
Agreed. However, it appears that whites have become in love with death both collectively and individually.
It was Katrina for me. I had been not tuning into them more and more, but Katrina coverage was the nail in the coffin, so to speak. I think I caught a couple of the after debate reports but that has really been it.
Fox is not and never has been a "conservative" network. Conservatives are prominent and given a respectful hearing, but Fox is "fair and balanced". It's reporting is in the middle. Fox News only seems conservative in comparision to the commie fascist statist networks everywhere else.
dont forget meghan kelly. traitor.
Apparently you do think Fox News Channel claims to be a conservative news organization. How quaint.
ah.. no i dont. i was referring to meghan kelly as the traitor.
fox has been leaning further to the left every yr.
Yes. Plenty of Lefties at FNC.
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