Here's one way to get back at The Media Whores

Ugnmoose

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Fri Sep-24-04 11:25 PM
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Here's one way to get back at The Media Whores

Perhaps we can get Moveon.org and several of the other activist Internet based groups to band together to do a massive effort to get all of us organized to boycott major sponsors of cable news. Think of the possibilities of publicizing the names of these companies and loading on a PR campaign to let them know we will not buy their products until they force the stations to truly be fair and balanced. Once their sales start dropping watch what happens. The Whores will be forced to listen. After all the only thing they react to is money.

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whistle

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Fri Sep-24-04 11:31 PM
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1. Let's defeat Bush/Cheney first and most importantly.....

...slap these guys in jail, then we can look at who to punish for going along with these crooks for that past four years....freakin' A!

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napi21

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Fri Sep-24-04 11:33 PM
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2. It won't work. Where are your going to air this?

On the same networks you're trying to harm???

You also have to understand, all you need is a sponsor like P&G, or Conagra, or General Foods, and you've lost. Those 3 companies make almost everything you eat!

Boycotts just won't work. If you can somehow affect their viewer numbers, that would have a better effect because then they lose advertising dollars. I don't know how you affect them in the short term. As I understand it, the viewer numbers are determined by Neilson boxes, and phome polls. They can be affected, but only in the longer term.

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Ugnmoose

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Fri Sep-24-04 11:42 PM
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3. You don't air it

You get the 1 million or so Intenet activists to commit in writing not to patronize these sponsors. Sort of a petition. Then you bombard each of the advertisers and the cable stations with the petition. Of course we all have to follow-through and make good on our threat. But if 1 million people or more stop buying their shit it will start to have its impact. Believe me the sponsors take note of this. It can and does work.

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cheshire

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Fri Sep-24-04 11:47 PM
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4. I've been saying that all along, only not as well.

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