WHAT WORKS: Starve the beast (boycott right wing propaganda sponsors)

[yurbud]

We need to write the sponsors of far right networks and shows, and let them know we won't be buying their products as long as they support programming that calls half the citizens of the United States traitors.

It works.

Sinclair Broadcasting backed down from showing an anti-Kerry documentary shortly before the election after their sponsors were contacted.

Now Staples, a major advertiser for Sinclair said they will withdraw their ads (and later claimed it wasn't for political reasons).

If you could send a letter or two a week to sponsors, it will make a difference. Part of why the mainstream press is so timid is precisely from this kind of campaign waged against them from the right. There are more of us, and our letters won't be in crayon.

The two biggest and best organized campaigns are against Sinclair Broadcasting and Hannity and O'Reilly on ABC radio.

You have to let these people know that democracy matters to us. If we don't, we'll deserve what they do to us.

http://sinclairaction.com/

http://adnausea.org/

[Nevernose]

1. It isn't numbers that count, it's vocaliization

It doesn't matter if we don't watch Faux. What matters is if we boycott their sponsors. And boycotss don't work, either, unless one is extremely vocal about their boycott.

Write the companies that advertise with them, then mention it to your friends and families.

Anyone have a list of Faux (and others) advertisers?

[yurbud]

2. yep, make noise

Oddly, I'm not sure if Fox has been directly targeted yet.

Adnausea is going after Fox hosts moonlighting on ABC radio, and Sinclair is a chain of actual stations.

If you want to start the Fox assault website, watch their commercials, write down the names of the sponsors, then search yahoo finance to find their corporate contact info.

[Erika]

3. Every since the election

I ask every solicitor if they donated in the last election and to whom. It gets tedious but I do it whether the solicitation comes via email, phone, letter or in person. If they respond they are primarily Republican, I tell them I believe in supporting my own. If they are primarily democratic I try to do business with them. If they say they don't donate to politics, I try to do business with them.

Each one of us does need to be vocal.