Posted on 05/19/2009 11:50:06 AM PDT by AIM Freeper
Frontpage Interviews guest today is Don Feder, a Boston Herald opinion writer and syndicated columnist for 19 years. He's currently a media consultant, free-lance writer and editor of Boycott The New York Times (www.boycottnyt.com)
FP: Don Feder, welcome to Frontpage Interview.
Feder: Thank you.
FP: Id like to talk to you today about your campaign to boycott the New York Times.
Of all the biased, mainstream media -- ABC, NBC, CBS, CNN, Washington Post, AP, etc. -- why are you boycotting the Times?
Feder: The New York Times is arguably the most biased media outlet in the country. Its also the most prestigious. The Times sets the tone for the rest of the mainstream media. Its read every day by editors and publishers of papers (large and small), network news departments, radio stations and news magazines.
Not only does it tell them what to cover, but also how to cover it. Referring to a Times story as above the page-one fold (on the top half of front page) means: This is important. Pay attention. The reverse is also true. If something isnt reported in The New York Times, many in the media dont consider it newsworthy.
Thus, the damage The New York Times does, by purveying bias throughout the mainstream media, goes far beyond it subscription base.
FP: How does The Times push its agenda in the guise of covering the news?
Feder: How do I count the ways? It does it through labeling. Conservatives are always conservatives; but leftists usually arent identified as such, or theyre called progressives or another euphemism. Words like extremist are regularly applied to groups and individuals on the right, but rarely, if ever, on the left.
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It would seem that a de facto boycott due to a crap product. This could only help them.
IT SEEMS TO BE WORKING.................
Boycott their advertisers. Look for the companies still buying full page ads.
But how do I know who the advertisers are if I’m not buying the paper?
Swallow some Pepto Bismol, gird your loins and (gasp) buy a Sunday New York Times...just ONCE. Go through it and see who pays big bucks for ads. If they do it once on Sunday they are probably regulars. There is your roster of places to avoid.
Then go to the nearest tree and beg its forgivenes for paying good money to buy a murdered relative. Sort of like an act of contrition.
Note, I didn’t say to actually read the damn thing.
Lie-braries.
I agree;it seems to be working. Let’s boycott the biased,lib media ABC, CBS, NBC, CNN, and MSNBC while we’re at it. Maybe they will all go broke!
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