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Onlooker Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Sep-05-06 04:47 PM
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Let's boycott ABC
As you know, ABC will be running The Path to 9/11, a propaganda documdrama that servces the interests of the Republican Party. The docudrama praises Bush and criticizes Clinton for 9/11. What's worse, it's being run without commercials just 6 weeks before the elections.

http://www.rawstory.com/news/2006/Congresswoman_Slaughter_calls_on_ABC_to_0905.html

What can we do? Well, let's boycott ABC and ask our fair-minded friends to do the same. Does anyone have a better idea?
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mckara Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Sep-05-06 04:52 PM
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1. Does Anybody Watch ABC??????? n/t
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LostinVA Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Sep-05-06 04:52 PM
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2. "Lost" is on ABC
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LSK Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Sep-05-06 04:52 PM
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3. this is the 4th boycott ABC thread in the past hour
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thereismore Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Sep-05-06 04:53 PM
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4. I can't possibly boycott it more than I am already... nt
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onenote Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Sep-05-06 04:57 PM
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5. better idea
don't watch the fuckin' show.

You're dreaming if you think that you can successfully launch a boycott over this show. In fact, all a boycott will do will bring more attention to the show, make more people want to see it. Its a suck ass show and we should be writing letters to the editor and raising a stink. That can lead (hopefully) to stories in the media that point out WHY we are raising a stink. But if the articles become all about a boycott that is having no impact (which is what I fear will happen), the goal of rebutting the show could get lost.
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Mojambo Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Sep-05-06 05:05 PM
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6. If ABC actually offered programming that I gave a SHIT about
I might join you.

Not much of a hardship giving up crap like Wife Swap, Extreme Makeover and Lost.

ABC blew long before they decided to air this propaganda.
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donco6 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Sep-05-06 05:07 PM
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7. I don't think I watch anything on that station.
So I guess I'm with you all the way!! (thumbs up)
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Scout1071 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Sep-05-06 05:09 PM
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8. Please, there are so many duplicate threads before this. Please delete.
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The Revolution Donating Member (497 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Sep-05-06 05:11 PM
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9. I will
But, like others on here, I don't actually watch ABC. So it won't be much of a change :)
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peacetalksforall Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Sep-05-06 05:24 PM
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10. I remember reading - right wing unhappy about gay Disney
employees and employee hiring policies and were boycotting Disney.

So now my fantasy is that all Democrats boycott Disney worlds and products leaving only right wingers to support them. After subtracting those who are already boycotting Disney, they might get a message about their partisan politics. Seriously ....

Seriously, I don't like boycotting that leads to job losses, but I think they should be hit by an onslaught of verbal objections of the serious kind - avoiding any threats or language that will get the communication tossed.
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onenote Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Sep-05-06 05:27 PM
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11. RW boycott of Disney was hugely unsuccessful
And was abandoned after 9 fruitless years. An attempt to start a boycott over this jackass tv show also has no chance of succeeding...most people just don't care and unless motivated by the controversy being generated by the show (something I'm sure ABC is loving) the show itself probably wouldn't be all that successful.
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livvy Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Sep-05-06 05:33 PM
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12. Contacting the sponsors might be more effective. n/t
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peacetalksforall Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Sep-05-06 09:50 PM
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14. I think ABC and Disney stockholders should be targeted. nt
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swimmernsecretsea Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Sep-05-06 05:52 PM
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13. ABC...hmmm....sounds familiar...
That '80's hairdo New Wave group? Sang "The Look of Love" ?

ohhhh.... you mean the Network. Wow. That's a flashback. Haven't watched 'em in a long while. I wonder if I can boycott something I never participate in.
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OPERATIONMINDCRIME Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Sep-05-06 09:53 PM
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15. Again, If You Don't Have A Nielsen Ratings Box Your Boycott Means Nothing.
Edited on Tue Sep-05-06 09:53 PM by OPERATIONMINDCRIME
Sorry, but that's just the way it is. It's going after their sponsors that matters.
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