Get NBC NEWS -make them liberal AND profitable... or BOYCOTT NBC

We at DU can be more effective than the church organizations in wagging the dog.
We can make a sagging broadcast news channel into a first rate success.

Offer NBC News the best ratings in the biz, or a boycott of their sponsors.

Spread the word to other sites and light a fire under their lardy corporate media ass.
We can use our Alito anger to make a change for the positive.
NBC is owned by GE, a huge part of the military industrial complex, but their ratings are tanked.
And O'Reilly has threatened them and ordered Mr Wright to SHUT UP, essentially.

Is there a news channel that has better potential to be the only liberal news channel for 50% of the nation?
Please help me with your ideas and suggestions
This has been nagging at me for decades, I really want to do something beyond giving money and ranting.

the war business..

This may well be an opportune moment, given the little 'come to jesus' speech tweety was giving, in the afternoon dose of his daily rant. I was trying to catch up with Murtha and saw tweety making some little speech, which I don't quite get the context for, about how he promises, from now on, to pursue a story, regardless of the consequences. I didn't see his later gig, so I'm a bit bemused.

I do think, however, someone of us, backed up by multiple thousands of like-minded individuals, could do a good job of selling the idea that a cable news channel that places a high premium on truth and accountability in reportage could well succeed. (Really sounds weird, making such a point)

When an outlet, such as Washington Post, which has a few shreds of fourth estate respectability remaining, makes an error, whether from ignorance or stupidity, the blogosphere (center-left) can be depended on to nail them, hard and accurately. Lost causes, such as the Washington Times and FOX anything, are generally not worth the time or outrage expenditure to edit them.

Anybody interested in the job of meeting with the snarky beasts at NBC or MSNBC and making a case?

"liberal" news? how about just the truth?

point taken

Scar, Mat, Tuc, and Rita are all RW and/or boring and/or irrelevant

If NBC really wants to become the next news rating smash, they need 4 more Olbermans.

liberal. They wrote the book on the global mega-corporation. I think if some of our liberal billionaires bought a struggling cable channel like Spike (I don't know really if it's struggling but there has to be some out there) and turned it into a cable news channel like Ted Turner did with CNN, it might be a better option.

They could get young journalists in to create programming. No big names just young people starting out with degrees from good universities. It could be the start of something big.

But look at how Soros is excoriated. Who would step up?
I keep reading that rich Dems are not giving it away.
How about a co-op news channel?

you'd really have to get a team on board that knew how to work their way through the corporate and journalistic parts.

First would you set up an escrow or trust to collect funds? Would you issue stock? I mean there is a lot of know how needed here, which means you would need a slush fund to begin with. Could you get enough cash together to stay afloat a few years?

Kind of hard to hurt them when you look at their stock portfolio.

http://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/40545/000004054506000004/ge4q05.txt

Halliburton and Baker Hughes which is an oil company. Hurting them by connecting them to the oil obscenity could work. I can't see where to boycott, just too damned many companies. Their headquarters are in Connecticut, which could explain alot and I don't even tend to think along those lines. Perhaps a permanent GE sit-in by some anti-Joe's would help. Smear their brand like the Pubs do ours.