Creationismsucks (147 posts) Sat Jul-18-09 01:11 PM
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Why is there no organized public pressure against Fox News?
Up here in Canada, if we had a tumor like Fox, spewing bile and lies and filth all day every day the way Fox News does, I'd be happy to organize letter writing campaigns, phone call campaigns, marches, etc, to get them to quit the endless propaganda. For Christ's sake, isn't anyone doing it in the US? If so, why not put more pressure directly on Fox's advertisers?
How can so much of your country be so progressive, but not just make it clear to Fox and their advertisers that this kind of bullshit will harm their bottom line?
And if people ARE doing those things, why isn't it getting any result?
Is it really true that Fox would keep behaving this way, even if advertiser money completely dried up?
Jesus I hate them.
I don't believe Fox News is carried by Canuck cable systems. thee DUmmy relies on the DUmp for a clear picture of America.
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=389x6096014Metta (1000+ posts) Sat Jul-18-09 01:16 PM
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1. Good point. They've consistently abused the public airwaves and the trust that comes with that.
I've often wondered why they're allowed to make up their own "facts."
Cable is not the public airways, but even so, DUmmy Metta should not talk that way about MSDNC.
Jade Fox (1000+ posts) Sat Jul-18-09 01:20 PM
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3. I think most people believe.....
there is still some sort of effective regulation of the media in the USA. They believe you can't tell blatant lies on the air or someone would stop you.
DUmmy Jade Fox is 100% wrong.
Every time I glance at CNN or MSDNC they are showing the jug-eared Kenyan reading blatant lies from a teleprompter.
nadinbrzezinski (1000+ posts) Sat Jul-18-09 01:33 PM
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12. Bingo, and they have operated in the red for years, it is only recent
that they got some of the black, and now that ratings have dropped...
It is a propaganda arm... Murdoch and Ailes do not particularly care if they operate at a loss
The stalinist DUmmy nadinbrzezinski is a wise one. She realizes that Rupert Murdoch has never been the kind of guy who cares about whether he makes a profit. He's like Crazy Harry who used to do his own TV commercials: "I don't care about making money. I just looove to sell carpet!"
MADem (1000+ posts) Sat Jul-18-09 01:21 PM
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6. We don't want Murdoch to leave.
His entertainment arm carries Family Guy, American Dad, King of the Hill, etc. And then, there's Cops and America's Most Wanted.
You need to give the idiots a place to play. Live and let live. It's not progressive to stamp out opposing viewpoints.
CBC in Canada has taken it up the wazoo under Harper. Talk about budget cuts! It's all reruns and bullshit, like Russian state television used to be in the Soviet era! All countries have lousy tv stations!
Advertising money won't dry up--there are lots of stupid people who like pretty colors and lipstick and boobs.
DUmmy MADem has clearly seen the CBC. If we had CBC, there would be no need for Ambien.
But I take great personal offense at the implication that it's just stupid people who like boobs.
Creationismsucks (147 posts) Sat Jul-18-09 01:40 PM
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15. I don't know your constitution well, but
I don't think this goes "directly to the first amendment".
Telling a business that you are upset by their support for lying hate-mongers, and that you will vote against that support with your dollars is NOT an infringement of free speech. They can still spew their filth all day long, just not on TV.
For Christ's sake, at the RNC and DNC, protesters were made to stand in "free speech zones" where nobody could hear or see them. I'm not even advocating that kind of oblivion for Fox's 'views' and speech. They can still say their vile shit, but if they want to put it on cable, and pay for it with advertising dollars, YOU would be well within YOUR speech rights telling the advertisers that you plan to punish them for supporting a bunch of racist, homophobe anti-democratic liars.
Cleita (1000+ posts) Sat Jul-18-09 01:40 PM
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14. The best public pressure would be to turn the channel off.
However, they seem to appeal to a lot of people and frankly I can't go anywhere in public where there is a TV blaring, like waiting rooms and the gym, where they don't have Fox News on. I don't get it myself because I don't know anybody who likes them or puts them on at home. So I think whoever is promoting them, those puppeteers behinds the scenes running our secret government, are using them as their propaganda outlet, sort of like Hitler took over all the newspapers in Nazi Germany so they would print whatever he wanted them to say. It never used to be this way and decades ago the TVs out in public ran CNN and back then CNN actually broadcasted unbiased new programming based on journalistic principles. Things started to change during the Reagan presidency and the shift to conservatism has brought us where we are today with a minority of hard core conservatives dictating what is and isn't in our society.
DUmmy Cleita is so far divorced from reality that I just have to enjoy it without further comment.