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DonViejo

(60,536 posts) Sat Mar 23, 2013, 02:22 PM Mar 2013

Why Tea Partiers Are Boycotting Fox News

by David Freedlander Mar 23, 2013 4:45 AM EDT

First it was the ‘left’ turn after the election, then Benghazi coverup accusations. Activists have a list of demands for the conservative network, which some say is ‘not as fair and balanced as I thought.’

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 station’s coverage, especially what they view as the network’s 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 network’s 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.

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Why Tea Partiers Are Boycotting Fox News (Original Post) DonViejo Mar 2013 OP

Just when you thought you had a handle on how nuts they are... Shrike47 Mar 2013 #1

lol.. the teabaggers want the foxheads to be frothing Cha Mar 2013 #14

They are not losing their only conservative network. aaaaaa5a Mar 2013 #2

CNN is pretty dangerous because Jamaal510 Mar 2013 #5

Jamaal510 Diclotican Mar 2013 #9

I was going to say davidpdx Mar 2013 #10

Eating your own is in vogue in the Teabag nation. appleannie1 Mar 2013 #3

I don't care how they go away louis-t Mar 2013 #4

Teabaggers are like Turbineguy Mar 2013 #6

Fox is going "soft" like Bengal tigers are going vegan DFW Mar 2013 #7

HahahahHa shenmue Mar 2013 #8

Yet, an investigation into 9/11 would be treasonous and unpatriotic. tarheelsunc Mar 2013 #11

This shit makes me want to run screaming off a cliff lunatica Mar 2013 #12

So... Faux news isn't telling them what they want to hear, over and over and over...? Rectangle Mar 2013 #13

Shrike47

(6,913 posts)

1. Just when you thought you had a handle on how nuts they are...

Reply to DonViejo (Original post)

Sat Mar 23, 2013, 02:30 PM

Mar 2013

If Fox has taken a left turn, why didn't they tell their employees?

Cha

(297,576 posts)

14. lol.. the teabaggers want the foxheads to be frothing

Reply to Shrike47 (Reply #1)

Sun Mar 24, 2013, 04:24 PM

Mar 2013

Pres Obama Hate at the mouth.. Foaming 24/7! Nothing less will do.

aaaaaa5a

(4,667 posts)

2. They are not losing their only conservative network.

Reply to DonViejo (Original post)

Sat Mar 23, 2013, 02:31 PM

Mar 2013

They still have CNN to help promote right wing propaganda and lies. (Isn't CNN still mourning the verdict in the Steubenville rape case? LOL)

Still, FOX is eventually going to die off if they don't find a younger more modern audience. FOX news dominates the ratings. But has anyone ever looked at the 25-54 demo? Very quietly LO wins his news block quite with this group. So does TRMS. Its only when viewers 55+ are added to the numbers that FOX's lead grows. That's a good recipe for them right now. But a bad one for the future.

BTW... I still argue that one reason FOX does well is because they are available in more homes. There are many parts of the country where MSNBC is unavailable or is a part of the premium cable package. FOX news is also more likely to be shown in generic news outlets such as at a hospital, senior home or shopping mall. This adds to their total.

Jamaal510

(10,893 posts)

5. CNN is pretty dangerous because

Reply to aaaaaa5a (Reply #2)

Sat Mar 23, 2013, 03:13 PM

Mar 2013

unlike FOX and MSNBC, they still have credibility with quite a few Americans (including my grandma) as being a non-biased news channel, when in actuality, their reporting reeks of false equivalence in everything political.

In addition to FOX being available in more homes than MSNBC and other networks, I also think it is still the ratings king because most RWNJs still buy the decades-long "liberal media" myth, where any network not named FOX News is automatically in bed with Obama and the DNC. So FOX automatically attracts all or most of the wingnut viewers, while non-wingnut viewership is diluted between ABC, CNN, MSNBC, Current, PBS, etc.

Diclotican

(5,095 posts)

9. Jamaal510

Reply to Jamaal510 (Reply #5)

Sun Mar 24, 2013, 12:47 AM

Mar 2013

Jamaal510

Before Bush jr got into office - CNN was known as a non-biased new shannel - albeit some bend on seeing everything from an american perspective... But if you took that into account, CNN was not the worst news channel. After Bush jr got into office, CNN got from a news channel - to a outright propaganda channel - who played by the script - rather than be a decent, biased news channel, who did their job... And in that proses, destroyed their own credibility...

Diclotican

davidpdx

(22,000 posts)

10. I was going to say

Reply to aaaaaa5a (Reply #2)

Sun Mar 24, 2013, 01:35 AM

Mar 2013

They just all ran over to CNN, the "Conservative Nut Network"

appleannie1

(5,068 posts)

3. Eating your own is in vogue in the Teabag nation.

Reply to DonViejo (Original post)

Sat Mar 23, 2013, 02:40 PM

Mar 2013

louis-t

(23,297 posts)

4. I don't care how they go away

Reply to DonViejo (Original post)

Sat Mar 23, 2013, 02:56 PM

Mar 2013

just as long as they go away.

Turbineguy

(37,364 posts)

6. Teabaggers are like

Reply to DonViejo (Original post)

Sat Mar 23, 2013, 04:30 PM

Mar 2013

the Scorcerer's Apprentice. Fox and Rush taught them everything they know.

DFW

(54,436 posts)

7. Fox is going "soft" like Bengal tigers are going vegan

Reply to DonViejo (Original post)

Sat Mar 23, 2013, 07:56 PM

Mar 2013

Fox is commercial enterprise. They want to appeal to a certain market, but their advertisers want them to appeal to a broad market in order to be able to peddle whatever they're buying ad time to peddle. The Fox audience is getting narrower and will continue to do so if they don't lighten up. Yet, if they do lighten up to please their advertisers (who are quiet but have the money), they will displease the crazies (who have no money but make a lot of noise).

It's easier to wait until the crazies get hoarse than to risk advertisers taking their money elsewhere. Fox will do what it thinks it has to in order to keep up the numbers that make its advertisers happy.

Advertisers can take their money anywhere they want to. The crazies have nowhere else to go. They'll calm down.