Posted on 10/31/2004 4:37:47 AM PST by rpellegrini
Whatever happens on Tuesday (and I am praying for a crushing Bush win over the empty suit called Kerry) the most important thing we can do is to pull out all the stops to boycott the networks for their violation of the trust and power given them.
This may not be easy for everyone, but we can do it. Don't waste time on their advertisers. Instead, smply do not let anything of any kind at any time (including entertainment) get in your space. Channel block, aim the remote, change the settings on your radio, only watch football through satellite, and tell friends why. This is something that will grow, and they WILL feel the pressure. Just Say No to the Networks.
How about listening to Hugh Hewitt for full coverage on the radio???
Hang out at FreeRepublic?
I am not planning on watching any of them, not even Fox!!!
They have PO'd me.
I prefer to save my "just say no's" to people I care about.
So the big three will just have to settle for kiss my ass.
Amen. Peter Chernin the liberal head of NewsCorp/Fox thinks that we are stupid and have short memories.
No network, no cable. Period. Talk Radio and Conservative Internet.
I second that emotion.
Make sure you do inform them of what you are doing. I sent an E-mail to the Manager of my local CBS affiliate after 'Rathergate', informing him of the fact, I had deleted his channel from all my remotes.
Is it true that the networks aren't going to be calling any state until polls in CA have closed?
Yeah,so goes the rumor which I wouldn't doubt.
Great advice. Economic Power bump! The war against domestic enemies will not end when President Bush, Vice-President Cheney and this Outstanding Administration are re-elected on Tuesday. We can defeat these crime syndicate co-conspirators / enablers with our pocketbooks. The rest of them will get more desparate, and will have to be dealt with by other means.
Also, Glenn Beck is doing an all night webcast (fee $6.95)
I plan on listening to Beck and reading FR.
That way, if FR gets too slow, I'll stil have a backup without having to turn on those disgusting TV election coverage games or listen to the pundits.
Of course, if Bush wins big, I will have to tune in to hear the after election spin from Matthews, Blitzer, Rather, Jennings, and Brokaw.
Take it from someone that's been doing that for years: It doesn't hurt a bit!
wWhy should we do the FCC's job for them, The feds should suspend the license of the 527 networks,for not registering as 527's
By the way McPain put on all those tears about how his Campaign Reform act was appropriated by the Dems how many think anything will be done about it?
I feel the exactly the same way about tuning in to hear em'.
But I'll tune in whether he wins by 20 pts or 2, cuz' I just Have To see the suicidal looks on their mugs, and hope for them to slip with a 'you let us down america' jab a W.
Regardless of the outcome of this election, we can make it the day network television was defeated. We don't have to watch the pain in their faces, just imagine it, it is more beautiful that way. And keep in mind, every peek to see their reaction puts money in their pockets. Far better to vote no!
If Bush wins the election, especially Big Time, it will be very difficult for me to keep the TV off CBSNBCABCCNN. Otherwise, no problem.
I barely watch the networks at all as it is. Very few series television and absolutely no network news.
On CBS, I catch CSI about 1/2 the time, but have given up on CSI NY after only a few episodes. I also enjoy Raymond and Two & a Half Men (which I only began watching when friends told me it's patterned after one of my fave sitcoms of all time, and I think the last GREAT sitcom, The Odd Couple).
On UPN, I watch Star Trek Enterprise maybe 1/3 of the time, if the opening precredit teaser 'grabs' me - usually it didn't, though the current storyline is probably the best since the show began and I am enjoying it a lot.
I don't watch any ABC or NBC programs - no reality shows, news, dramas, or comedies.
On cable I watch The Shield (as hot as ever) and the Sopranos (running on fumes since Season 3, I just watch it out ofa strange sense of loyalty). In each case it runs its 13 weeks and then takes a year off, so it doesn't take much time.
I am more into and some repeats of older shows I enjoy - Star Trek TNG on Spike, Bullwinkle on Boomerang, Hogans Heroes on Hallmark, Benny Hill on BBCA. Toss in a Blind Date here and there, and that's most of the non-news and now-sports tv I watch.
I try and keep tv consumption low - about 5 or 6 hours a week at most, and Tivo makes it easy - cut commercials out, speed through credits, and zip through subplots I don't like.
I also Tivo Brit Hume, O'R Factor, and H&C, and through the miracle of Tivo I compress those three hours into usually 30 minutes or so. It's easy when you cut commercials out and zip through dud segments. I usually watch the 10 minute roundtable at the end of Hume, usually 1 or 2 segments of O'R, and 1 or 2 segments of H&C, clocking my daily news analysis to 22 to 34 minutes or so.
TV stinks - read a book or cultivate your life, instead.
We live in a country at war and we have a president who knows how to fight one. The country changed dramaticallty on September 11, 2001 and the networks apparently missed the change.
Those prominent Democrats who have announced they are voting for Bush have cited the war against terrorists as their primary reason for the change in their voting preference.
Sorry- the correct spelling of the word is "dramatically."
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