Writing letters to the MSM execs and their advertisers is a waste of time - they know you'll tune in if you're concerned enough to write them. The only way they are going to actually DO something about their behavior is if they see their ratings fall away, and in order to do that the MSM must be unplugged.
What we need is for Rush, Drudge, etc. to pick up on this and run with it as well. Why wouldn't they? It's not going to hurt their medium one bit, and they have been maligned by the MSM often enough to have motivation in assisting this cause. I'd certainly appreciate it if anyone who has good access would forward this to them.
Come on FReepers, you can't have it both ways any longer - they've been out to destroy our nation and our political views for nearly 12 years now. Don't support them with your viewership. Let's do them in once and for all.
Agree BIGTIME!
We have got to flex some clout here or the media is GOING TO BE ELECTING OUR PRESIDENTS FROM HERE ON!!
Look how much of the US poplation is softened up and easy to manipulate via their narcotic like addition to media.
And I'm talking the entertainmnet addiction firehosed into our lives 24/7--too many citizens in a stupor of entertainment with their world and values defined by television, movies, rap, rock --no wonder they are so easy to mold and sway.
They've gotten lazy and looking for instant gratification--perfect targets for grand puppet masters like Dem operatives backed by even scarier puppet masters like George Soros and the Bilderbergs to build a whole 'new world' on their weakness.
WE HAVE GOT TO FIGHT BACK WITH CHOICE TO SWITCH OFF MSM MEDIA!!
Count me in.
Great Idea! Just turned off Fox & Friends. They have been getting on my nerves anyway. I think I'll go vote and then spend the day raking leaves. I can't remember being this nervous on election day before. Our country's very existence will depend on what happens today. God Bless America!! God Bless George W. Bush and his family.
I'm in--ping me to let me know what day.
We started "No TV Day" during the disgusting coverage of the Clinton scandal, and have lived without it ever since (except one month of cable to follow the war.) It is a much more relaxing and thoughtful way of life. We watch videos when we want, and get our news on the internet and radio.
My husband and I have already made this pledge! For our own sanity! We have already voted and are going to be busy getting out the vote in Florida. We will be waving signs this morning and then we are working until very late this evening, walking door to door until 7 pm!
You might want to schedule the boycott for sweeps week and announce it before hand, I seldom if ever watch tv and NEVER watch broadcast tv, so I'll boycott for a year if you want me to, I'll do it standing on my head.
Go W!
Wow, this is a smart idea. I bet you could get a lot of attention if it was organized well.
Ping me for further info.
(Or accomplish anything else, for that matter!)
Won't be too hard for me. I don't usually watch it anyway.
Even when I do happen to stop on it with the remote I usually can only handle about 1 minute.
Unless you are one of the approximately 26,000 Nielsen Families by which the media corporations judge the viewing "standards" (or lack thereof) of America, then no one will hear you as you turn off your TV in silence.
The exception to this are TiVo users, because the TiVo box is a giant TV SpyWare device that reports is user's viewing habits back to TiVo headquarters. But even TiVo users represent only a tiny percentage of the US population. And anyone who owns a TiVo is probably too much of a TV junkie to take part in any TV boycott.
Don't get me wrong: I'm all for American's reducing their consumption of TV (and Hollywood movies, and video games, and Leftist newspapers, and sex-stuffed magazines, and anti-social music, etc.). I just don't see a general "turn off your TV" effort among us making an impact. Even if the mainstream media did notice and even if they had some way of measuring the number of sets turned off, if it's only for one day, they probably wouldn't give a damn. For example, if millions of people didn't drive their cars for one day to protest the depletion of natural resources, do you think oil companies would suddenly decide to quit making gasoline? Back to the media companies: I sincerely doubt that a one-day blanket boycott would affect the programming decisions of any entertainment shows. I know it won't have any affect on the biased agenda of the "news" networks like CBS, ABC, NBC because they have a Leftist political agenda they are pursuing and that will trump everything else, including their own profit motives. That's why Dan Rather is still on the job despite "memogate."
If you really want to do something, I suggest specifically targeted boycotts at the advertisers of the programs that offend you: the advertisements provide the financial means for the Left to advance their agenda. The Left has been very coordinated and aggressive at this type of boycott and they have had considerable success: witness the homosexual lobby's attacks on Anita Bryant and Dr. Laura. Unfortunately, conservatives have rarely demonstrated the determination and unity required to make these types of boycotts work.
One factor working against us is that, conservatives being more independently-oriented, are less likely to engage in the type of groupthink required to make boycotts effective. In fact, I find it often surprising how much we conservatives bicker and battle among ourselves over various issues. But at least we do realize that their are many complexities to any single issue and possess the ability to rationally analyze and debate the points. The Left, on the other hand, is much more single-minded (usually to the point of being numb-brained zombies) when it comes to pushing their causes. For example, many on the Left protest laws against criminal violence to a baby inside a pregnant woman, because they are unwilling to accept anything that might diminish Roe v. Wade.
Secondly, conservative generally lack any pre-organized social structure, whereas the Left has the labor unions and other activist groups already well-established. The one exception to that rule is the NRA. And yet, even with the NRA's huge membership, massive financial resources, powerful political lobby, and unity of cause, they are usually ineffective at stopping the gradual erosion of our Second Amendment rights. In fact, many gun "control" laws are passed with the nod of approval by the NRA. Can you imagine the homosexual lobby ever approving any legislation that diminishes their "rights"? We can't even get them to accept society's status quo on the most important cultural tradition ever devised by civilized man: that marriage is a union between a man and a woman for the purposes of establishing and raising a family!
The final factor working against us is that, frankly, most conservative and "regular" Americans are simply too content in their daily lives to exert the effort and make the sacrifices necessary to wage effective boycott campaigns. Example: the Dixie Chicks. Yes, they did lose sales in the wake of their America-bashing comments (no doubt, somewhat offset by sales gains from the Left). But I recall, at the time, many members of Free Republic (and other "conservatives") who continued to patronize the Chicks by buying their albums and attending their concerts. They simply valued their own entertainment more than they valued taking a stand for America.
This last point will be the hardest for us to overcome as a group, and I doubt we will improve significantly in this area any time soon. At least not until our society is really crashing down around us in a free-fall towards national socialism/communism. Of course, by them, it will likely be too late. As Edmund Burke remarked: "The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing."
I proposed a more active 'counterstrike' against the main stream media during the previous coup-plotters attempts, but it received little attention.
Perhaps thia might in accord with your intent.
Note that my intent is to strike back at the main stream media not their sponsers. By informing the sponsers that MSM ad dollars are not reaching them they will seek more effective venues. I received no response from Nielsen yet. I've also mailed letters to big ticket mfrs. autos, appliances,etc. to which I included a listing of magazine subscriptions. (in my case more than a dozen)
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MSM Bias - Counterstrike
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10-0804 | Covenantor
Posted on 10/08/2004 9:10:08 PM EDT by Covenantor
This latest public revelation by the MSM coup plotters as revealed by Drudge requires a massive response. Pondering that response lead me to consider how most quickly and effectively this might be achieved. Advertiser boycotts require relatively massive efforts as well as avoiding products that one might need to use in any case. Such boycotts are at heart intended to move advertising dollars away from the coup-plotters pocket books.
Here's an idea that might have some merit. Rather than reaching out to the advertisers reach out to the Nielsen Media ratings system. They are the ones that report the number of viewers based upon a mere 5000 households. It is these ratings that determine the the desired market shares and the cost of attendant advertising dollars.
I purpose that we e-mail, snail mail, telephone Nielsen to inform them that our housholds no longer watch any shows on a given network, that we have taken ourselves out of the market place for any advertisers on that network and that their dollars are therefore wasted. The advertisers will have to try to find another way of reaching us.
Consider that 5000 household viewing patterns determine the rates that networks can charge their advertisers perhaps 10,000 or more letters of independence just might shake these sob's out of their smug arrogance.
I assume that FReepers are for the most part among those most desired by advertisers so maybe we can have a quick effect.
I sugggest that any contacts be polite, giving the reasons, and maybe some market info, such sex, age group, profession, etc.
Just let them know we're not home whent they come calling.
Any thoughts?
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I have been not watching MSM all week, and plan to continue, regardless of who wins, I do not miss them, and FOX is just like the rest, they have reallllllly changed this year.
I am watching and praying with EWTN today! Rush @ noon.
Absolutely. My family had already decided not to watch.
So. It's the Rings trilogy all day today.
I can't decide if Kerry is Saruman or just a miserable orc.
The very best thing is for folks to just shut off their televisions for good. I did that two years ago and have never regretted it.
Count me in. I'll give it up EVERY Friday from here on out.
I find that FOX news is the least biased network and choose to watch that exclusively. The only time the alphabet channels are on my tv is as the tuner is passing over them.......
Friday sounds good to me.
IMHO, we do need an organized follow up boycott of some sort to hit them where it hurts. Lots of good ideas on this thread.